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Phassa Sutta: Contact

Phassa Sutta

Summary: How conviction in, and understanding of, inconstancy of contact can lead to stream-entry.

SN 25.4 PTS: S iii 226 CDB i 1005

Phassa Sutta: Contact

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

At Savatthi. “Monks, eye-contact is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-contact… Nose-contact… Tongue-contact… Body-contact… Intellect-contact is inconstant, changeable, alterable.

“One who has conviction & belief that these phenomena are this way is called a faith-follower: one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal womb, or in the realm of hungry shades. He is incapable of passing away until he has realized the fruit of stream-entry.

“One who, after pondering with a modicum of discernment, has accepted that these phenomena are this way is called a Dhamma-follower: one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal womb, or in the realm of hungry shades. He is incapable of passing away until he has realized the fruit of stream-entry.

“One who knows and sees that these phenomena are this way is called a stream-enterer, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for self-awakening.”

See also: Other suttas from the Okkanta Samyutta; the Study Guides on stream-entry.


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