Suitable Way For Attaining Nibbana
(4th sutta)
Bhikkhus, I will teach you the way that is
suitable for attaining Nibbana. Listen to that ....
And what, bhikkhus, is the way that is
suitable for attaining Nibbana?
What do you think, bhikkhus, is the eye
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 (etam mama), this I am (eso ‘ham asmi),
this is my self (eso me attã)”?
“No, venerable sir.”
(The rest is Identical with the preceding
discourse).
What do you think, bhikkhus, is the form…
the eye-consciousness… the eye-contact…
whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as
condition permanent or impermanent? (The rest is
identical with the above speech, but are stated by
way of the six external sense bases: the ear... the
nose… the tongue... the body ... the mind).
Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble
disciple experiences:
Revulsion towards the eye;
Revulsion towards forms;
Revulsion towards eye-consciousness;
Revulsion towards eye-contact;
Revulsion towards whatever arises with
eye-contact as condition-whether pleasant or
painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant.
(Each of the followings is to be completed
as above)
The ear... the nose… the tongue... the body
... the mind.
Experiencing revulsion, he becomes
dispassionate. Through dispassion [his mind] is
liberated.
When it is liberated, there comes the
knowledge: ‘It’s liberated.’
He understands: “Destroyed is birth, the
holy life has been lived, what had to be done
has been done, there is no more for this state of
being.”
This, bhikkhus, is the way that is suitable
for attaining Nibbana.
Bodhi Bhikkhu, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha:
A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Vollum II,
Wisdom Publication, Boston, 2000, 150 (5) Suitable for
Attaining Nibbana (4) p. 1156, 1212-1213
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