Skip to content
True DhammaLibrary · Community
SN 22.20PTS SN 3.241 min read

Not-Self With Its Cause

Sahetuanattasutta

Since the causes of the aggregates are not-self, how can the aggregates be self?

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.20Linked Discourses 22.20
  • 0.22. Aniccavagga2. Impermanence

0.3SahetuanattasuttaNot-Self With Its Cause

1.1Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Rūpaṁ, bhikkhave, anattā.“Mendicants, form is not-self.1.3Yopi hetu yopi paccayo rūpassa uppādāya, sopi anattā.The cause and reason that gives rise to form is also not-self.1.4Anattasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, rūpaṁ kuto attā bhavissati.Since form is produced by what is not-self, how could it be self?

1.5Vedanā anattā …Feeling is not-self …

1.6saññā anattā …Perception is not-self …

1.7saṅkhārā anattā …Choices are not-self …

1.8viññāṇaṁ anattā.Consciousness is not-self.1.9Yopi hetu yopi paccayo viññāṇassa uppādāya, sopi anattā.The cause and reason that gives rise to consciousness is also not-self.1.10Anattasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, viññāṇaṁ kuto attā bhavissati.Since consciousness is produced by what is not-self, how could it be self?

1.11Evaṁ passaṁ …pe…Seeing this …1.12nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this place.’”

1.13Navamaṁ.