Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN22: Connected Discourses on the Aggregates

SN22:32 The Fragile

1At Sāvatthī. "Bhikkhus, I will teach you the fragile [n.45] Pabhanga, glossed pabhijjanasabhāva, "subject to breaking apart." Spk: Here the characteristic of impermanence is discussed. and the unfragile. Listen to that …

"And what, bhikkhus, is the fragile, and what the unfragile? sn.iii.33 Form is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile. Feeling is the fragile … Perception is the fragile …

Volitional formations are the fragile … Consciousness is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile."


1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Pabhaṅguñca, bhikkhave, desessāmi appabhaṅguñca. Taṁ suṇātha.

Kiñca, bhikkhave, pabhaṅgu, kiṁ appabhaṅgu? Rūpaṁ, bhikkhave, pabhaṅgu. Yo tassa nirodho vūpasamo atthaṅgamo, idaṁ appabhaṅgu. Vedanā pabhaṅgu. Yo tassā nirodho vūpasamo atthaṅgamo, idaṁ appabhaṅgu. Saññā pabhaṅgu …

saṅkhārā pabhaṅgu. Yo tesaṁ nirodho vūpasamo atthaṅgamo, idaṁ appabhaṅgu. Viññāṇaṁ pabhaṅgu. Yo tassa nirodho vūpasamo atthaṅgamo, idaṁ appabhaṅgū"ti.


Ekādasamaṁ.
Bhāravaggo tatiyo.

2Bhāraṁ pariññāṁ abhijānaṁ,
chandarāgaṁ catutthakaṁ;
Assādā ca tayo vuttā,
abhinandanamaṭṭhamaṁ;
Uppādaṁ aghamūlañca,
ekādasamo pabhaṅgūti.

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