Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases

SN35:216–218 What Is Suffering of the Past, Etc.

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1"Bhikkhus, forms … mental phenomena of the past … of the future … of the present are suffering. What is suffering is nonself. What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’ Seeing thus … He understands: ‘ … there is no more for this state of being.’"

1"Rūpā, bhikkhave, dukkhā atītā anāgatā paccuppannā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ. Saddā … gandhā … rasā … phoṭṭhabbā … dhammā dukkhā atītā anāgatā paccuppannā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ. Evaṁ passaṁ … pe … nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī"ti.

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