Seeing the Five
Clusters of Clinging as Alien & Remote:
What do you think, bhikkhus & friends, is form, feeling, perception
mental constructions, and consciousness permanent or impermanent ??
Impermanent, Venerable Sir,
Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?
Suffering, Venerable Sir.
Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to
be regarded thus: 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self' ??
No, Venerable Sir.
Therefore, bhikkhus & friends, any kind of form whatsoever,
any kind of feeling whatsoever, any kind of perception whatsoever,
any kind of mental constructions whatsoever, & any kind of consciousness
whatsoever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross
or fine, high or low, far or near, all this should be seen as it really is with
true understanding thus:
This is not mine, this is not me, this I am not, this is not my or any self...!!!
Seeing thus, bhikkhus & friends, the learned Noble Disciple experiences
revulsion towards form, towards feeling, revulsion towards perception,
revulsion towards mental constructions, revulsion towards consciousness.
While experiencing this revulsion, he becomes disillusioned & detached.
Through this detached disillusion his mind is released. When it is released
there emerges the assurance: It is released. He understands: Destroyed is
this rebirth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been 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 24:71 III 223
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
