SN 24.16PTS SN 3.2151 min read

A Realized One No Longer Exists

Nahotitathāgatosutta

The view that a realized one no longer exists after death is given up by seeing the aggregates, as well as what is seen, heard, thought, and known, as impermanent.

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

0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 24.16Linked Discourses 24.16
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0.3NahotitathāgatosuttaA Realized One No Longer Exists

1.1Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Kismiṁ nu kho, bhikkhave, sati, kiṁ upādāya, kiṁ abhinivissa evaṁ diṭṭhi uppajjati:“Mendicants, when what exists, because of grasping what and insisting on what, does the view arise:1.3‘na hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇā’”ti?‘A realized one no longer exists after death’?” …

1.4“Bhagavaṁmūlakā no, bhante, dhammā …pe…1.5niyato sambodhiparāyano”ti.

1.6Soḷasamaṁ.