Saṁyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
25. Okkantika Saṁyutta

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
25. Kindred Sayings on Entering

Sutta 1

Cakkhu Suttaṁ

The Eye

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

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[177]

[1][than] Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren!"

"Master!" responded those brethren.

The Exalted One said:

"The eye, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.^[1]

The ear, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The nose, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The tongue, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The body,^[2], brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The mind, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

 

§

 

He who has faith and confidence, brethren,
in these doctrines,
such an one is called:

'Walker in faith,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,^[3]
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruit of stream-winning.'

■

He, brethren, by whom these doctrines
by his insight
are moderately approved,^[4]
is called:

'Walker in Dhamma^[ed1],
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruit of stream-winning.'

■

[178] He, brethren, who thus knows,
thus sees
these doctrines,
is called

'Stream-winner,
saved from destruction,
assured,
bound for enlightenment.'"

 

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^[1] Aññathā-bhāvī. Cf. S. iv, 67 f.

^[2] Kāyo, here the organ of touch sensation, the whole bodily surface.

^[3] Okianto sammatta-niyāmaṇ. Cf. Pts. of Controv. 177, C. 185. Vis. Magg. 177. Sammatta is the abstract noun from samma (Lat. summa, highest, best).

^[4] Mattaso nijjhānaṇ khamanti. Cf. S. v, 377; A. iv, 241.; J.P.T.S., 1913-14, p.220.

 

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^[ed1] Woodward mistakenly repeats "walker in faith".