The Buddha presents a repeated teaching on the six internal and external sense bases regarding the interior and what’s suffering in the three times in this grouped discourse.
PTS 4.154“Cakkhu, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ atītaṁ anāgataṁ paccuppannaṁ. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ …pe… jivhā dukkhā …pe… mano dukkho atīto anāgato paccuppanno. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.
Evaṁ passaṁ …pe… nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī”ti.
Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).
“Cakkhu, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ atītaṁ anāgataṁ paccuppannaṁ.
“Mendicants, in the past … future … present the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are suffering.
Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā.
What’s suffering is not-self …”
Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ …pe…
jivhā dukkhā …pe…
mano dukkho atīto anāgato paccuppanno.
Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā.
Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ.
Evaṁ passaṁ …pe…
nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī”ti.
Last updated on September 10, 2026