“Mendicants, gods and humans like sights, they love them and enjoy them. But when sights perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering. Gods and humans like sounds …
But when ideas perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering. The Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sights, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them. When sights perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.
PL
Dhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā dukkhā, bhikkhave, devamanussā viharanti. Tathāgato ca kho, bhikkhave, arahaṁ sammāsambuddho rūpānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na rūpārāmo na rūparato na rūpasammudito. Rūpavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati.
EN
The Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sounds … smells … tastes … touches …
PL
Saddānaṁ … gandhānaṁ … rasānaṁ … phoṭṭhabbānaṁ …
EN
ideas, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them. When ideas perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.” That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
PL
dhammānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na dhammārāmo, na dhammarato, na dhammasammudito. Dhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati”. Idamavoca bhagavā. Idaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:
EN
“Sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touches and ideas, the lot of them— they’re likable, desirable, and pleasurable as long as you can say that they exist.
PL
“Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā, phassā dhammā ca kevalā; Iṭṭhā kantā manāpā ca, yāvatatthīti vuccati.
EN
For all the world with its gods, this is what they deem happiness. And where they cease is deemed as suffering for them.
They’re mired in desire for continued existence, flowing along the stream of lives, mired in Māra’s dominion: this teaching isn’t easy for them to understand.
“Mendicants, gods and humans like sights, they love them and enjoy them. But when sights perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering. Gods and humans like sounds …
But when ideas perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering. The Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sights, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them. When sights perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.
PL
Dhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā dukkhā, bhikkhave, devamanussā viharanti. Tathāgato ca kho, bhikkhave, arahaṁ sammāsambuddho rūpānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na rūpārāmo na rūparato na rūpasammudito. Rūpavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati.
EN
The Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sounds … smells … tastes … touches …
PL
Saddānaṁ … gandhānaṁ … rasānaṁ … phoṭṭhabbānaṁ …
EN
ideas, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them. When ideas perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.” That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
PL
dhammānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na dhammārāmo, na dhammarato, na dhammasammudito. Dhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati”. Idamavoca bhagavā. Idaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:
EN
“Sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touches and ideas, the lot of them— they’re likable, desirable, and pleasurable as long as you can say that they exist.
PL
“Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā, phassā dhammā ca kevalā; Iṭṭhā kantā manāpā ca, yāvatatthīti vuccati.
EN
For all the world with its gods, this is what they deem happiness. And where they cease is deemed as suffering for them.
They’re mired in desire for continued existence, flowing along the stream of lives, mired in Māra’s dominion: this teaching isn’t easy for them to understand.
Sutraya