SN 24.17PTS SN 3.2151 min read

A Realized One Both Still Exists and No Longer Exists

Hoticanacahotitathāgatosutta

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

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0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 24.17Linked Discourses 24.17
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0.3HoticanacahotitathāgatosuttaA Realized One Both Still Exists and No Longer Exists

1.1PTS 3.216Sāvatthinidānaṁ.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‘hoti ca na ca hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇā’”ti?‘A realized one both still exists and no longer exists after death’?” …

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

1.6Sattarasamaṁ.