Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ I: Mūla-Paññāsa
1. Anicca Vagga Paṭhama
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Root Fifty
1. The Impermanent
Sutta 7
Dutiya Ajjhatta Anicca Suttaɱ (Aniccam 3; Ajjhattam)
The Internal as Impermenent in the Three Times
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent, both of the past and the future, not to speak of the present.
Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple is indifferent towards the eye of the past; he does not seek delight in the eye of the future; and he is practising for revulsion towards the eye of the present, for its fading away and cessation.
"The ear is impermanent ...
The nose is impermanent ...
The tongue is impermanent ...
The body is impermanent ...
The mind is impermanent, both of the past and the future, not to speak of the present.
Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple is indifferent towards the mind of the past ... for its fading away and cessation."
