Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
2. Dutiya Anicca Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of the Aggregates Khandha-Vagga
22. Connected Discourses on the Aggregates
II. Impermanent
Sutta 21
Ānanda Suttaɱ
Ānanda
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Then the Venerable Ānandaapproached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him:
"Venerable sir, it is said, 'cessation, cessation.'
Through the cessation of what things is cessation spoken of?"
"Form, Ānanda, is impermanent, conditioned, dependently arisen, subject to destruction, to vanishing, to fading away, to cessation.
Through its cessation, cessation is spoken of.
"Feeling is impermanent ...
Perception is impermanent ...
Volitional formations are impermanent ...
[25] ... Consciousness is impermanent, conditioned, dependently arisen, subject to destruction, to vanishing, to fading away, to cessation.
Through its cessation, cessation is spoken of.
"It is through the cessation of these things, Ānanda, that cessation is spoken of."
