The "Connected Discourses on Arrival" presents a sequence of brief discourses showing how insight begins with seeing impermanence across different aspects of experience, including the sense faculties, their objects, consciousness, contact, feeling, perception, intention, craving, elements, and the aggregates. Each sutta applies the same formula: when these phenomena are understood as impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise, one enters the fixed course of rightness as a faith-follower or Dhamma-follower, and with full knowledge and vision becomes a stream-enterer. This collection highlights the threshold of awakening as a decisive penetration of impermanence at any point in experience.
Okkantasaṁyutta - Connected Discourses on Arrival
Cakkhu vagga - The Chapter on the Eye
The chapter of the Connected Discourses on Arrival, containing discourses 1–10.
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry before death. Fully understanding and seeing this truth makes one a stream-enterer, free from lower realms and destined for complete awakening.
PTS 3.225Forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, and mental objects are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry before death.
PTS 3.225The six classes of consciousness are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.226The six types of contact are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry before death.
PTS 3.226Felt experience produced from the six sensory and mental impressions is impermanent. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.226The six classes of perception are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.227Intentions regarding forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, and mental objects are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.227Craving for forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, and mental objects is impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.227The earth, water, fire, air, space, and consciousness elements are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry.
PTS 3.227Form, feeling, perception, intentional constructs, and consciousness are impermanent, changing, and becoming otherwise. Accepting this through faith or wisdom guarantees stream-entry before death. Fully understanding and seeing this truth makes one a stream-enterer, free from lower realms and destined for complete awakening.
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