At Savatthi. “Bhikkhus, the eye is suffering, both of the past and the future, not to speak of the present. Seeing thus … The mind is suffering … for its fading away and cessation.”
sn.35.8 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
The Internal as Suffering in the Three Times
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh
The Interior as Suffering in the Three Times
“Mendicants, the eye of the past and future is suffering,let alone the present.
Seeing this, a learned noble disciple doesn’t worry about the eye of the past,
they don’t look forward to enjoying the eye in the future,
and they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye in the present. …”