雜阿含經 12: 18 (12). Causes and Conditions (2)
The Connected Discourses (selected sūtras) 12
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18 (12). Causes and Conditions (2)
12.p1
Thus I have heard: One time, the Buddha was staying at Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park in Jeta’s Grove of Śrāvastī.
12.p2
It was then that the Bhagavān addressed the monks, “Form is impermanent. Whatever causes and conditions give rise to forms, they are also impermanent. How could forms that arise from impermanent causes and conditions be permanent? Thus, feeling … conception … volition … awareness is impermanent. Whatever causes and conditions give rise to instances of awareness, they are also impermanent. How could instances of awareness that arise from impermanent causes and conditions be permanent?
12.p3
“Thus, monks, form is impermanent. Feeling … conception … volition … awareness is impermanent. What’s impermanent is painful, something painful is not self, and something that’s not self doesn’t belong to self. Observing in this way is called true observation.
12.p4
“Noble disciples who observe it in this way are liberated from form … liberated from feeling … conception … volition … awareness. I say that this is liberation from birth, old age, illness, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, and trouble.”
12.p5
When the monks heard what the Buddha taught, they rejoiced and approved.
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- 雜阿含經 — Classical Chinese