12.
The Discourse on the External Non-self Cause
145.
"Visible forms, monks, are non-self.
Whatever cause, whatever condition there is for the arising of visible forms, that too is non-self.
Visible forms arisen from non-self, monks, how could they be self!
Sounds...
Odours...
Flavours...
Tangibles...
Mental phenomena are non-self.
Whatever cause, whatever condition there is for the arising of mental phenomena, that too is non-self.
Mental phenomena arisen from non-self, monks, how could they be self!
Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with visible forms, becomes disenchanted with sounds...
becomes disenchanted with odours...
becomes disenchanted with flavours...
becomes disenchanted with tangibles...
becomes disenchanted with mental phenomena.
Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate;
through dispassion, he becomes liberated;
when liberated, there is the knowledge: 'Liberated.'
He understands: 'Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being.'"
The twelfth.