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Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
2. Dutiya Anicca Vagga

The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
2. The Second on Impermanence

Sutta 17

Tatiya Yad Anicca Suttaɱ

What is Impermanent (3)

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[1][bodh] Thus have I heard:—

The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī.

The Exalted One said:

"Body, brethren, is void of self.

What is void of the self,
that is not mine,
I am not it,
it is not my self.

That is how it is to be regarded
by perfect insight of whet it really is.

Feeling, brethren, is void of self.

What is void of the self,
that is not mine,
I am not it,
it is not my self.

That is how it is to be regarded
by perfect insight of whet it really is.

Perception, brethren, is void of self.

What is void of the self,
that is not mine,
I am not it,
it is not my self.

That is how it is to be regarded
by perfect insight of whet it really is.

The activities, brethren, are void of self.

What is void of the self,
that is not mine,
I am not it,
it is not my self.

That is how it is to be regarded
by perfect insight of whet it really is.

Consciousness, brethren, is void of self.

What is impermanent
that is suffering.

What is suffering,
that is void of the self.

What is void of the self,
that is not mine,
I am not it,
it is not my self.

That is how it is to be regarded
by perfect insight of whet it really is.

Thus seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by body,
is repelled by feeling,
is repelled by perception,
is repelled by the activities
is repelled by consciousness.

Being repelled
he lusts not
not lusting he is set free
in this freedom comes insight
that it is a being free.

Thus he realizes:

'Rebirth is destroyed,
lived is the righteous life,
done is my task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'"


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