Friends:

The Internal Sensors are Fragile, Decaying and Vanishing!

At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering!
What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it
really is with correct, true and realistic understanding thus:
This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self...
The ear is impermanent.... The nose is impermanent....
The tongue is impermanent.... The body is impermanent....
The mind is impermanent. What is impermanent is really suffering...
What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it
really is with correct, true and realistic understanding thus:
This is neither me nor mine, this I am not, this is not my or any self!
Seeing this, bhikkhus, any educated noble disciple is disgusted with
the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, and with the mind...
The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion & disenchantment!!!
Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated,
then there appears the assurance: 'This mind is freed' & one instantly
understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully concluded,
done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...


More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. IV 1-2
The group on the 6 Senses 35:1 The Internal as Impermanent...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
 


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