Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

Page 144

I, 6, 47. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 101
• It is perishable, Lord.'
And that which is perishable, does that cause pain or joy?" 'It causes pain, Lord.'
And that which is perishable, painful, subject to change, is it possible to regard that in this way: This is mine, this am I, this is my self ?'
That is impossible, Lord.' 43. 'Is sensation permanent or perishable ?'.... (&c.?)
44. "Therefore, O Bhikkhus, whatever body has been, will be, and is now, belonging or not belonging to sentient beings, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, distant or near, all that body is not mine, is not me, is not my self: thus it should be considered by right knowledge according to the truth.
45. Whatever sensation, . . . . (&c.2)
46. Considering this, O Bhikkhus, a learned, noble hearer of the word becomes weary of body, weary of sensation, weary of perception, weary of the Samkhâras, weary of consciousness. Becoming weary of all that, he divests himself of passion ; by absence of passion he is made free; when he is free, he becomes aware that he is free; and he realises that re-birth is exhausted; that holiness is completed; that duty is fulfilled; and that there is no further return to this worlds.'
47. Thus the Blessed One spoke; the five Bhikkhus were delighted, and rejoiced at the words of the Blessed One. And when this exposition had been
1 Here follow the same questions, answers, and rejoinders, with regard to sensation, perception, the samkhâras, and consciousness.
? The same with regard to the other four khandhas. 3 Compare Burnouf, 'Lotus de la bonne Loi,' p. 481.
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