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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases

SN35:5 The External as Suffering

1"Bhikkhus, forms are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’


"Sounds are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’

Odours are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’

Tastes are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’

Tactile objects are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’


Mental phenomena are suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’


"Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards forms, revulsion towards sounds, revulsion towards odours, revulsion towards tastes, revulsion towards tactile objects, revulsion towards mental phenomena.
Experiencing revulsion, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion his mind is liberated. When it is liberated there comes the knowledge: ‘It's liberated.’ He understands: ‘Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being.’"

1"Rūpā, bhikkhave, dukkhā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ tadanattā; yadanattā taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.


Saddā … gandhā … rasā … phoṭṭhabbā …


dhammā dukkhā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ tadanattā. Yadanattā taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.


Evaṁ passaṁ … pe … nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī"ti.


Pañcamaṁ.