Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ II: Paññāsaka Dutiya
3. Gilāna Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Second Fifty
3. Sick
Suttas 76-78
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Sutta 76
Paṭhama Rādha Suttaɱ
Rādha
[1][pts] Then the Venerable Rādha approached the Blessed One ... and said to him:
"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One would teach me the Dhamma in brief, so that, having heard the Dhamma from the Blessed One, I might dwell alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute."
"Rādha, you should abandon desire for whatever is impermanent.
And what is impermanent?
The eye is impermanent; you should abandon desire for it.
Forms are impermanent ...
Eye-consciousness is impermanent ...
Eye-contact is impermanent ...
Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is impermanent; you should abandon desire for it.
"The ear ...
The mind is impermanent ...
Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition ... that too is impermanent; you should abandon desire for it.
[49] Rādha, you should abandon desire for whatever is impermanent."
Sutta 77
Dutiya Rādha Suttaɱ
Rādha
"Rādha, you should abandon desire for whatever is suffering." ...
Sutta 78
Tatiya Rādha Suttaɱ
Rādha
"Rādha, you should abandon desire for whatever is nonself."...
