6. BAHIRANATTA SUTTA Discourse on Non-self Nature of External 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

      6. Bhikkhus, visible objects are non-self. This visible object which is non-self must be viewed, as it really is, with the right wisdom, thus: 'This is not mine. This is not I. This is not my Self (atta).' Sounds ... Odours ... Tastes ... Tangible objects. Mind-objects are non-self. This mind-object which is not self must be viewed, as it really is, thus: 'This is not mine, this is not I. This is not my Self (atta).' On perceiving thus, the well- informed ariya disciple ... p ... there is nothing more to do (for such realization).'

End of the Bahiranatta Sutta.

the sixth in this vagga.