Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 49.5

49.5

阿難白佛：「世尊！若有長者、長者子來問我者，我當答言：『知色是生滅法，知受、想、行、識是生滅法。』世尊！若長者、長者子如是問者，我當如是答。」

Ānanda said to the Buddha, “Bhagavān, if some prominent man or a prominent man’s son came and asked me that, I would answer, ‘Know that form is something that arises and ceases. Know that feeling … conception … volition … consciousness is something that arises and ceases.’ Bhagavān, if a prominent man or a prominent man’s son thus questions me, I would answer him in this way.”