"Bhikkhus, I will teach you the way that is suitable for attaining Nibbāna. Listen to that and attend closely, I will speak...
"What do you think, bhikkhus, is the eye permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?"
"Suffering, venerable sir."
"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: This is mine, this I am, this is my self ?"
"No, venerable sir.
"Are forms permanent or impermanent? ...
Is eye-consciousness Is eye-contact Is any feeling ...
that arises with eye-contact as condition-whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant-permanent or impermanent? ... "Is the ear permanent or impermanent?...Is the mind... Is any feeling
that arises with mind-contact as condition permanent or impermanent?"-
"Impermanent, venerable sir."-
"Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?"-
"Suffering, venerable sir."-
"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: This is mine, this I am, this is my Is the mind ... self ?"-
"No, venerable sir."
"Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards the eye, towards forms, revulsion towards eye-consciousness, revulsion towards eye-contact, revulsion towards whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition-whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant."
He experiences revulsion towards the ear towards the mind...towards whatever feeling arises with ... mind-contact as condition... Experiencing revulsion,
he becomes dispassionate.
Through dispassion (his mind) is liberated.
When it is liberated, there comes the knowledge: 'It's liberated.
He understands: 'Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being.
"This, bhikkhus, is the way that is suitable for attaining Nibbāna."
