Interior and Cause Are Impermanent

Ajjhattaaniccahetusutta

Interior and Cause Are Impermanent

Ajjhattaaniccahetusutta

EN
“Mendicants, the eye is impermanent. The cause and reason that gives rise to the eye is also impermanent. Since the eye is produced by what is impermanent, how could it be permanent? The ear … nose … tongue … body …
PL
“Cakkhuṁ, bhikkhave, aniccaṁ. Yopi hetu, yopi paccayo cakkhussa uppādāya, sopi anicco. Aniccasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhu kuto niccaṁ bhavissati …pe… jivhā aniccā.
EN
mind is impermanent. The cause and reason that gives rise to the mind is also impermanent.
PL
Yopi hetu, yopi paccayo jivhāya uppādāya sopi anicco. Aniccasambhūtā, bhikkhave, jivhā kuto niccā bhavissati …pe… mano anicco. Yopi, bhikkhave, hetu yopi paccayo manassa uppādāya, sopi anicco.
EN
Since the mind is produced by what is impermanent, how could it be permanent? Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed. They 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.’”
PL
Aniccasambhūto, bhikkhave, mano kuto nicco bhavissati. Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati …pe… jivhāyapi nibbindati …pe… manasmimpi nibbindati, nibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti. ‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.
PL
Sattamaṁ.

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

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