7. AJJHATTANICCATITANAGATA SUTI'A Discourse on Impermanence of Past and Future Internal Sense-bases Annica Vagga, Salayatana Vagga Samyutta Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka SOURCE: "SALAYATANA SAMYUTTA" Group of Related Discourses on the Six Sense-bases from "SALAYATANA VAGGA SAMYUTTA" Division of Discourses on the Six Sense-Bases Translated by U Hla Maung, Myanmar Tipitaka Association, 1998

      7. Bhikkhus, the eye in the past and in the future is impermanent; where is the need for saying those of the eye in the present is impermanent. The well-informed ariya disciple who perceives thus is indifferent to the past eye. Neither does he take any delight in the future eye. He practises to get disgusted with, to free himself from attachment to, and for cessation (i.e., no further arising in the future) of the present eye. The ear is impermanent ... The nose is impermanent ... The tongue in the past and in the future is impermanent; where is the need for saying that the tongue in the present is impermanent. The well-informed ariya disciple who perceives thus is indifferent to the past tongue. Neither does he take any delight in the future tongue. He practises to get disgusted with, to free himself from attachment to, and for cessation (i.e., no further arising in the future) of the present tongue. The body is impermanent ... p ... The mind in the past and in the future is impermanent; where is the need for saying that the mind in the present is impermanent. Bhikkhus, the well-informed ariya disciple who perceives thus is indifferent to the past mind. Neither does he take any delight in the future mind. He practises to get disgusted with, to free himself from attachment to, and for cessation (i.e., no further arising in the future) of the present mind.

End of the Ajjhataniccatitanagata Sutta,

the seventh in this vagga.