sn.22.32 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

The Fragile

At Savatthi. “Bhikkhus, I will teach you the fragile and the unfragile. Listen to that….

“And what, bhikkhus, is the fragile, and what the unfragile? Form is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile. Feeling is the fragile … Perception is the fragile …

Volitional formations are the fragile … Consciousness is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile.”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh

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The Breakable

At Sāvatthī.
“Mendicants, I will teach you the breakable and the unbreakable.
Listen …
And what is the breakable? What is the unbreakable?
Form is breakable,
but its cessation, settling, and ending is unbreakable.
Feeling …

perception …
choices …

consciousness is breakable,
but its cessation, settling, and ending is unbreakable.”