Saṁyutta Nikāya:
III. Khandhā Vagga:
25: Okkantika Saṁutta

Kindred Sayings on Entering

Sutta 1

Cakkhu Suttaṁ

The Eye

 

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Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren!"

"Master!" responded those brethren.

The Exalted One said:

"The eye, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.¹

The ear, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The nose, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The tongue, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The body,², brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

The mind, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.

 

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He who has faith and confidence, brethren,
in these doctrines,
such an one is called

'Walker in faith,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,³
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the many-folk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruits of stream-winning.'

He, brethren, by whom these doctrines
by his insight
are moderately approved,⁴
is called

'Walker in Dhamma^ed1,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the many-folk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruits of stream-winning.'

[178] He, brethren, who thus knows,
thus sees
these doctrines,
is called

'Stream-winner,
saved from destruction,
assured,
bound for enlightenment.'"

 

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¹ Aññathā-bhāvī. Cf. S. iv, 67 f.

² Kāyo, here the organ of touch sensation, the whole bodily surface.

³ Okianto sammatta-niyāmaṅ. Cf. Pts. of Controv. 177, C. 185. Vis. Magg. 177. Sammatta is the abstract noun from samma (Lat. summa, highest, best).

⁴ Mattaso nijjhānaṅ khamanti. Cf. S. v, 377; A. iv, 241.; J.P.T.S., 1913-14, p.220."

 

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^ed1 Woodward mistakenly repeats "walker in faith".