4.
The Discourse on the External as Impermanent
4.
"Forms, monks, are impermanent.
What is impermanent, that is suffering;
what is suffering, that is non-self.
What is non-self, that - 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self' - thus this should be seen as it really is with right wisdom.
Sounds...
Odours...
Flavours...
Tangible objects...
mental phenomena are impermanent.
What is impermanent, that is suffering;
what is suffering, that is non-self.
What is non-self, that - 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self' - thus this should be seen as it really is with right wisdom.
Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with forms, becomes disenchanted with sounds, becomes disenchanted with odours, becomes disenchanted with flavours, becomes disenchanted with tangible objects, 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 fourth.