{"id":"sn35.140","title":"Interior and Cause Are Impermanent","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.140","title":"Interior and Cause Are Impermanent","units":[{"id":"sn35.140:0","sourceIds":["sn35.140:0.1","sn35.140:0.2","sn35.140:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.140\n14. Devadahavagga\nAjjhattaaniccahetusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.140\n14. At Devadaha\nInterior and Cause Are Impermanent"}},{"id":"sn35.140:1","sourceIds":["sn35.140:1.1","sn35.140:1.2","sn35.140:1.3","sn35.140:1.4","sn35.140:1.5","sn35.140:1.6","sn35.140:1.7","sn35.140:1.8","sn35.140:1.9","sn35.140:1.10","sn35.140:1.11","sn35.140:1.12","sn35.140:1.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cakkhuṁ, bhikkhave, aniccaṁ.\nYopi hetu, yopi paccayo cakkhussa uppādāya, sopi anicco.\nAniccasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhu kuto niccaṁ bhavissati …pe…\njivhā aniccā.\nYopi hetu, yopi paccayo jivhāya uppādāya sopi anicco.\nAniccasambhūtā, bhikkhave, jivhā kuto niccā bhavissati …pe…\nmano anicco.\nYopi, bhikkhave, hetu yopi paccayo manassa uppādāya, sopi anicco.\nAniccasambhūto, bhikkhave, mano kuto nicco bhavissati.\nEvaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati …pe… jivhāyapi nibbindati …pe… manasmimpi nibbindati,\nnibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.\n‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, the eye is impermanent.\nThe cause and reason that gives rise to the eye is also impermanent.\nSince the eye is produced by what is impermanent, how could it be permanent?\nThe ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind is impermanent.\nThe cause and reason that gives rise to the mind is also impermanent.\nSince the mind is produced by what is impermanent, how could it be permanent?\nSeeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.\nBeing disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.\nThey understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.140/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}