3.
The Discourse on Rādha and Impermanence
76.
Then the Venerable Rādha... etc.
Seated to one side, the Venerable Rādha said this to the Blessed One -
"It would be good, venerable sir, if the Blessed One would expound to me the Teaching in brief, so that having heard the Teaching from the Blessed One, I might dwell alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute."
"Whatever, Rādha, is impermanent, therein your desire is to be abandoned.
And what, Rādha, is impermanent, therein your desire is to be abandoned?
The eye is impermanent, forms are impermanent, eye-consciousness...
Eye-contact...
Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is impermanent.
Therein your desire is to be abandoned, etc.
The tongue...
The body...
The mind is impermanent.
Therein your desire is to be abandoned.
Mental phenomena...
Mind-consciousness...
Mind-contact...
Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is impermanent.
Therein your desire is to be abandoned.
Whatever, Rādha, is impermanent, therein your desire is to be abandoned."
The third.