{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.43/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.43","id":"suttacentral_sn22.43","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.43/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, be your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge, with no other refuge. When you live like this, you should examine rationally: \u2018From what are sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress born and produced?\u2019 And, mendicants, from what are sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress born and produced? It\u2019s when an unlearned ordinary person has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the noble ones. They\u2019ve not seen true persons, and are neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the true persons. They regard form as self, self as having form, form in self, or self in form. But that form of theirs decays and perishes, which gives rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They regard feeling as self \u2026 They regard perception as self \u2026 They regard choices as self \u2026 They regard consciousness as self, self as having consciousness, consciousness in self, or self in consciousness. But that consciousness of theirs decays and perishes, which gives rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. Sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress are given up when you understand the impermanence of form\u2014its perishing, fading away, and cessation\u2014and you truly see with right understanding that all form, whether past or present, is impermanent, suffering, and perishable. When these things are given up there\u2019s no anxiety. Without anxiety you live happily. A mendicant who lives happily is said to be quenched in that respect. Sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress are given up when you understand the impermanence of feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness\u2014its perishing, fading away, and cessation\u2014and you truly see with right understanding that all consciousness, whether past or present, is impermanent, suffering, and perishable. When these things are given up there\u2019s no anxiety. Without anxiety you live happily. A mendicant who lives happily is said to be quenched in that respect.\u201d","title":"Be Your Own Island","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":329}