SN35:86 The Dhamma in Brief
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1Sitting to one side, the Venerable Ānanda said to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, it would be good if the Blessed One would teach me the Dhamma in brief, so that, having heard the Dhamma from the Blessed One, I might dwell alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute."
2"What do you think, Ānanda, is the eye permanent or impermanent?" sn.iv.55
3"Impermanent, venerable sir."
4"Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?"
5"Suffering, venerable sir."
6"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: ‘This is mine, this I am, this is my self’?"
7"No, venerable sir."
8"Are forms … Is eye-consciousness … Is eye-contact permanent or impermanent? …
9"Impermanent, venerable sir." …
10"Is any feeling that arises with eye-contact as condition— whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant— permanent or impermanent? …
11"Impermanent, venerable sir."
12"Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?"
13"Suffering, venerable sir."
14"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: ‘This is mine, this I am, this is my self’?"
15"No, venerable sir."
"Is the ear … permanent or impermanent? …
"Is the nose … permanent or impermanent? …
16–18"Is the tongue … permanent or impermanent? …
"Is the body … permanent or impermanent? …
"Is the mind … mental objects … mind-consciousness … mind-contact permanent or impermanent?
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"Is any feeling that arises with mind-contact as condition permanent or impermanent?"
19"Impermanent, venerable sir."
20"Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?"
21"Suffering, venerable sir."
22"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: ‘This is mine, this I am, this is my self’?"
23"No, venerable sir."
24"Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards the eye, towards forms, towards eye-consciousness, towards eye-contact, towards whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition— whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant.
"He experiences revulsion towards the ear …
He experiences revulsion towards the nose …
He experiences revulsion towards the tongue …
He experiences revulsion towards the body …
He experiences revulsion towards whatever feeling arises with any contact as condition …
"He experiences revulsion towards the mind … mental objects … mind-consciousness … mind-contact …
towards whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition …
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.’
1Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "sādhu me, bhante, bhagavā saṅkhittena dhammaṁ desetu, yamahaṁ bhagavato dhammaṁ sutvā eko vūpakaṭṭho appamatto ātāpī pahitatto vihareyyan"ti.
2"Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, Ānanda, cakkhu niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā"ti?
3"Aniccaṁ, bhante".
4"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā"ti?
5"Dukkhaṁ, bhante".
6"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ: ‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’"ti?
7"No hetaṁ, bhante".
8"Rūpā niccā vā aniccā vā"ti?
9"Aniccā, bhante" … pe … .
10"Cakkhuviññāṇaṁ … pe … yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā"ti?
11"Aniccaṁ, bhante".
12"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā"ti?
13"Dukkhaṁ, bhante".
14"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ: ‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’"ti?
15"No hetaṁ, bhante"
… pe … .
16"Jivhā niccā vā aniccā vā"ti?
17"Aniccā, bhante" … pe … .
18"Jivhāviññāṇaṁ … jivhāsamphasso … pe …
yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā"ti?
19"Aniccaṁ, bhante".
20"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā"ti?
21"Dukkhaṁ, bhante".
22"Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ: ‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’"ti?
23"No hetaṁ, bhante".
24"Evaṁ passaṁ, Ānanda, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati … pe … cakkhusamphassepi nibbindati … pe … yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tasmimpi nibbindati.
Nibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.
‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī"ti.
Tatiyaṁ.