Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN22: Connected Discourses on the Aggregates

SN22:118 Interrogation (1) [n.224] The Ee title, Parimucchita, should be amended to Paripucchita.

1At Sāvatthī. "Bhikkhus, what do you think, do you regard form thus: ‘This is mine, this I am, this is my self’?"

"No, venerable sir."


"Good, bhikkhus! Form should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’

"Do you regard feeling … perception … volitional formations … sn.iii.166 consciousness thus: ‘This is mine, this I am, this is my self’?"

"No, venerable sir."


"Good, bhikkhus! Consciousness should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: ‘This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.’


"Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards form, revulsion towards feeling, revulsion towards perception, revulsion towards volitional formations, revulsion towards consciousness.

Experiencing revulsion, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion his mind is liberated. When it is liberated there comes the knowledge: ‘It's liberated.’

He understands: ‘Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being.’"

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Taṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave, rūpaṁ ‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’ti samanupassathā"ti?

"No hetaṁ, bhante".


"Sādhu, bhikkhave. Rūpaṁ, bhikkhave, ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.

vedanāṁ … saññaṁ … saṅkhāre … viññāṇaṁ ‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’ti samanupassathā"ti?

"No hetaṁ, bhante".


"Sādhu, bhikkhave. Viññāṇaṁ, bhikkhave, ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.


… pe … evaṁ passaṁ … pe … nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī"ti.


Chaṭṭhaṁ.

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