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
Suttas 9-12
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Sutta 9
The Internal as Nonself in the Three Times
"Bhikkhus, the eye is nonself, both of the past and the future, not to speak of the present.
Seeing thus ... [5] ...
The mind is nonself ...
for its fading away and cessation."