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The Discourse on the Eye
302.
At Sāvatthī.
"The eye, monks, is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise;
the ear is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise;
the nose is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise;
the tongue is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise; the body is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise;
the mind is impermanent, subject to change, becoming otherwise.
Whoever, monks, thus believes in and resolves upon these phenomena -
this one is called a faith-follower, entered the fixed course of the right path, entered the plane of the good person, transcended the plane of the worldlings;
incapable of doing that action, which having done one would be reborn in hell or the animal realm or the sphere of ghosts;
and incapable of dying until he realises the fruition of stream-entry."
"For whom, monks, these phenomena thus yield to pondering to a moderate degree with wisdom, this one is called - 'a follower of the Teaching, entered the fixed course of the right path, entered the plane of the good person, transcended the plane of the worldlings; incapable of doing that action, which having done one would be reborn in hell or the animal realm or the sphere of ghosts; and incapable of dying until he realises the fruition of stream-entry.' Whoever, monks, thus understands these phenomena, thus sees, this one is called - 'a stream-enterer, no longer subject to fall into lower realms, fixed in destiny, heading for the highest enlightenment.'" The first.