Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

1: The Book of the Ones

1. Obsession of the Mind - 268

1"It is impossible and inconceivable, bhikkhus, that a person accomplished in view could consider any conditioned phenomenon as permanent; there is no such possibility. But it is possible that a worldling might consider some conditioned phenomenon as permanent; there is such a possibility." [n.150] Mp: "One accomplished in view (diṭṭhisampanna) is a noble disciple, a stream-enterer, possessing the view of the path (maggadiṭṭhiyā sampanna). The worldling, in contrast, can consider the conditioned phenomena of the three planes (the sensory plane, the form plane, and the formless plane) as permanent by way of the eternalist view (sassatadiṭṭhi)."

1"Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ diṭṭhisampanno puggalo kañci saṅkhāraṁ niccato upagaccheyya. Netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjati. Ṭhānañca kho etaṁ, bhikkhave, vijjati yaṁ puthujjano kañci saṅkhāraṁ niccato upagaccheyya. Ṭhānametaṁ vijjatī"ti.

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