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Linked Discourses · SN 35.226

  • Linked Discourses 35.226Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.226
  • 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts17. Saṭṭhipeyyālavagga

The Exterior as SufferingBāhirāyatanadukkhasutta

“Mendicants, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are suffering.“Rūpā, bhikkhave, dukkhā. Saddā … gandhā … rasā … phoṭṭhabbā … dhammā dukkhā.

Seeing this …Evaṁ passaṁ …pe… They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this place.’”nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. SN 35.216–218 The Exterior and What’s Suffering in the Three Times 0.82near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.216–218 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Exterior and What’s Suffering in the Three Times “Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are suffering.…
  2. SN 35.198–200 The Exterior as Suffering in the Three Times 0.81near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.198–200 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Exterior as Suffering in the Three Times “Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are suffering …”…
  3. SN 35.223 The Interior as Suffering 0.74near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.223 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Interior as Suffering “Mendicants, the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are suffering. Seeing this … They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this pl…
  4. SN 35.180–182 Desire, Etc. for the Suffering Exterior 0.72near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.180–182 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts Desire, Etc. for the Suffering Exterior “Mendicants, you should give up desire … greed … desire and greed for what is suffering. And what is suffering? Sights, sou…
  5. SN 35.213–215 The Exterior and What’s Impermanent in the Three Times 0.69near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.213–215 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Exterior and What’s Impermanent in the Three Times “Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are impermane…