SN 35.213–215The Exterior and What’s Impermanent in the Three Times
Pāli / Sanskrit:Bāhirātītādiyadaniccasutta
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– Chapter 35: Linked Discourses on the Six Sense Fields
– II: The Chapter of Sixty Abbreviated Texts
35.213–215. What Is Impermanent (10–12)
Vi-n 1-2.…
Vi-n 3—Mendicants, sights were impermanent in the past … will be impermanent in the future … are impermanent in the present … What is impermanent is suffering. What is suffering is not-self. What is not-self should be truly seen with right understanding: “This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.”
Vi-n 4-7.Sounds … Smells … Tastes … Touches …
Vi-n 8Ideas were impermanent in the past … will be impermanent in the future … are impermanent in the present … What is impermanent is suffering. What is suffering is not-self. What is not-self should be truly seen with right understanding: “This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.”
Vi-n 9Seeing this … “ … there is no return to any state of existence.”
This collection was translated into Vietnamese by Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Monastery in the early 1980s. It was later republished in 1993 as part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, where it was numbered from 12 to 16.
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The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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