Saṁyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṁyutta
2. Anicca Vagga

Part III: The Book Called The Khandhā-Vagga Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and Other Subjects
Chapter XXII: Kindred Sayings on Elements (Khandhā)
Section 2: The Second on Impermanence

Sutta 20

Tatiya Hetu Suttaṁ

Cause (3)

 

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Thus have I heard:—

The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī.

The Exalted One said:

"Body, brethren, is void of the self.

That which is the cause,
that which is the condition
of the arising of body,
that also is void of the self.^ed1

How, brethren, can a body
which is void of the self
come to be the self?

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Feeling is void of the self.

That which is the cause,
that which is the condition
of the uprising of feeling,
that also is void of the self.

How, brethren, can feeling
which is void of the self
come to be self?

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Perception is void of the self.

That which is the cause,
that which is the condition
of the uprising of perception,
that also is void of the self.

How, brethren, can perception
which is void of the self
come to be self?

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The activities are void of the self.

That which is the cause,
that which is the condition
of the uprising of the activities,
that also is void of the self.

How, brethren, can the activities
which are void of the self
come to be self?

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Consciousness is void of the self.

That which is the cause,
that which is the condition
of the uprising of consciousness,
that also is void of the self.

How, brethren, can consciousness
which is void of the self
come to be self?

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Thus seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by body,
is repelled by feeling,
is repelled by perception,
is repelled by the activities
is repelled by consciousness.

Being repelled
he lusts not
not lusting he is set free
in this freedom comes insight
that it is a being free.

Thus he realizes:

"Rebirth is destroyed,
lived is the righteous life,
done is my task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'"

 

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^ed1 Woodward has here and in the next paragraph mistakenly retained 'impermanent' from #18.