The Interior as Suffering in the Three Times

Ajjhattadukkhātītānāgatasutta

The Interior as Suffering in the Three Times

Ajjhattadukkhātītānāgatasutta

EN
“Mendicants, the eye of the past and future is suffering, let alone the present. Seeing this, a learned noble disciple is not concerned with the eye of the past, they don’t look forward to enjoying the eye in the future,
PL
“Cakkhuṁ, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ atītānāgataṁ; ko pana vādo paccuppannassa. Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako atītasmiṁ cakkhusmiṁ anapekkho hoti; anāgataṁ cakkhuṁ nābhinandati;
EN
and they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye in the present. …”
PL
paccuppannassa cakkhussa nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti. Sotaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe… ghānaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe… jivhā dukkhā atītānāgatā;
PL
ko pana vādo paccuppannāya. Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako atītāya jivhāya anapekkho hoti; anāgataṁ jivhaṁ nābhinandati; paccuppannāya jivhāya nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti.
PL
Kāyo dukkho …pe… mano dukkho atītānāgato; ko pana vādo paccuppannassa. Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako atītasmiṁ manasmiṁ anapekkho hoti;
PL
anāgataṁ manaṁ nābhinandati; paccuppannassa manassa nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hotī”ti. Aṭṭhamaṁ.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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