Linked Discourses 35.227Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.227
17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts17. Saṭṭhipeyyālavagga

The Exterior as Not-SelfBāhirāyatanaanattasutta

“Mendicants, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are not-self.“Rūpā, bhikkhave, anattā. Saddā … gandhā … rasā … phoṭṭhabbā … dhammā anattā.

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.

SN 35.219–221 The Exterior and What’s Not-Self in the Three Times 0.81near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.219–221 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Exterior and What’s Not-Self in the Three Times “Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are not-self. An…

SN 35.201–203 The Exterior as Not-Self in the Three Times 0.79near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.201–203 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Exterior as Not-Self in the Three Times “Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas are not-self …”…

SN 35.6 The Exterior as Not-Self 0.71near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.6 1. Impermanence The Exterior as Not-Self “Mendicants, sights are not-self. And what’s not-self should be truly seen with right understanding like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not…

SN 35.224 The Interior as Not-Self 0.71near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.224 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts The Interior as Not-Self “Mendicants, the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are not-self. Seeing this … They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this plac…

SN 35.183–185 Desire, Etc. for the Not-Self Exterior 0.70near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.183–185 17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts Desire, Etc. for the Not-Self Exterior “Mendicants, you should give up desire … greed … desire and greed for what is not-self. And what is not-self? Sights, sounds…