And then Venerable Phagguna went up to the Buddha … and said to him:

“Sir, suppose someone were to describe the Buddhas of the past who have become fully quenched, cut off proliferation, cut off the track, finished off the cycle, and transcended all suffering. Does the eye exist by which they could be described?

Does the ear … nose … tongue … body exist …? Does the mind exist by which they could be described?”

“Phagguna, suppose someone were to describe the Buddhas of the past who have become fully quenched, cut off proliferation, cut off the track, finished off the cycle, and transcended all suffering. The eye does not exist by which they could be described.

The ear … nose … tongue … body does not exist … The mind does not exist by which they could be described.”

The Linked Discourses

|_The Group of Linked Discourses Beginning With the Six Sense Fields

|__【1】SN35. Linked Discourses on the Six Sense Fields

|___B. The Second Fifty

|____III. The Chapter on Sick

SN35.83 Phagguna’s Question

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पाळिभासा (Pāli)

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