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SN 35.156PTS SN 4.1421 min read

The Interior and the End of Relishing

Ajjhattanandikkhayasutta

Right view is seeing the interior sense fields as they are, impermanent, and this leads to freedom.

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.156Linked Discourses 35.156
  • 0.216. Nandikkhayavagga16. The End of Relishing

0.3AjjhattanandikkhayasuttaThe Interior and the End of Relishing

1.1PTS 4.142“Aniccaṁyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cakkhuṁ aniccanti passati, sāssa hoti sammādiṭṭhi.“Mendicants, the eye really is impermanent. A mendicant sees that it is impermanent: that’s their right view.11.2Sammā passaṁ nibbindati.Seeing rightly, they grow disillusioned.1.3Nandikkhayā rāgakkhayo;When relishing ends, greed ends. When greed ends, relishing ends.21.4rāgakkhayā nandikkhayo.1.5Nandirāgakkhayā cittaṁ suvimuttanti vuccati …pe…When relishing and greed end, the mind is said to be well freed.

1.6aniccaṁyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhu jivhaṁ aniccanti passati, sāssa hoti sammādiṭṭhi.The ear … nose … tongue … body …1.7Sammā passaṁ nibbindati.1.8Nandikkhayā rāgakkhayo;1.9rāgakkhayā …pe…1.10cittaṁ suvimuttanti vuccati …pe…1.11aniccaṁyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhu manaṁ aniccanti passati, sāssa hoti sammādiṭṭhi.mind really is impermanent. A mendicant sees that it is impermanent: that’s their right view.1.12Sammā passaṁ nibbindati.Seeing rightly, they grow disillusioned.1.13Nandikkhayā rāgakkhayo;When relishing ends, greed ends. When greed ends, relishing ends.1.14rāgakkhayā nandikkhayo.1.15Nandirāgakkhayā cittaṁ suvimuttanti vuccatī”ti.When relishing and greed end, the mind is said to be well freed.”

1.16Paṭhamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. This discourse and the next are similar to SN 22.51.

    ↩ sn35.156:1.1

  2. “Relishing” (nandi) and “greed” (or “lust”, rāga) are similar in meaning, but with distinct stresses: “relishing” enjoys the object of desire, while “greed” is inflamed by passion for it.

    ↩ sn35.156:1.3