32b: The 14th Rains Retreat (Rāhula) – 1065
Buddha: “My dear son Rāhula, what do you think of what I am going to ask you
now? Is the sensitive matter called tongue permanent or impermanent?”
Rāhula: “Impermanent, venerable sir.” etc.
This is the teaching on the five items concerning the tongue (
jivhā-pañcaka
).
Buddha: “My dear son Rāhula, what do you think of what I am going to ask you
now? Is the sensitive matter called body permanent or impermanent?”
Rāhula: “Impermanent, venerable sir.” etc.
This is the teaching on the five items concerning the body (
kāya-pañcaka
).
Buddha: “My dear son Rāhula, what do you think of what I am going to ask you
now? Is the sensitive matter called mind permanent or impermanent?”
Rāhula: “Impermanent, venerable sir.”
Buddha: “Is the impermanent sensitive element called mind unsatisfactory or
satisfactory?”
Rāhula: “Unsatisfactory, venerable sir.”
Buddha: “Should the impermanent, unsatisfactory and changeable sensitive
element called mind be taken falsely through craving as mine, through conceit
as I, and through wrong view as my self?”
Rāhula: “No, venerable sir.”
Buddha: “My dear son Rāhula, what do you think of what I am going to ask you
now? Is mind and matter called ideation (
dhammārammaṇa
) permanent or
impermanent?
Rāhula: “Impermanent, venerable sir.”
Buddha: “Is the impermanent mind and matter called ideation unsatisfactory or
satisfactory?”
Rāhula: “Unsatisfactory, venerable sir.”
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Buddha: “Should the impermanent, unsatisfactory and changeable mind and
matter called ideation be taken falsely through craving as mine, through conceit
as I, and through wrong view as my self?”
Rāhula: “No, venerable sir.”