10.
The Discourse on the Non-Eternalist View
215.
At Sāvatthī.
"When what exists, monks, clinging to what, having clung to what, does such a view arise:
'The world is non-eternal'?"
"The teachings have the Blessed One as their root, venerable sir, etc.
"When matter exists, monks, etc.
consciousness permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." Etc.
would such a view arise by non-clinging to that:
'The world is non-eternal'?
"No, Venerable Sir."
"Whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognised, attained, sought after, pondered over by the mind, is that too permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir. Etc.
would such a view arise by non-clinging to that:
'The world is non-eternal'?"
"No, Venerable Sir."
"When, monks, for a noble disciple uncertainty regarding these states has been abandoned, and his uncertainty regarding suffering has been abandoned, etc. and his uncertainty regarding the practice leading to the cessation of suffering has been abandoned - this is called, monks, a noble disciple who is a stream-enterer, no longer subject to fall into lower realms, fixed in destiny, heading for the highest enlightenment." The tenth.