Reading guide
One substitution: anāgata for atīta
“In the future the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind will be impermanent…” replaces SN 35.186's own past-tense declaration; the formula that follows is trusted to the reader's own memory of SN 35.186's full text.
Key terms
anāgata — future — this discourse's own time-value, the second of round two's three
cakkhu…aniccaṁ anāgataṁ — “the eye…will be impermanent [in the future]” — this discourse's own opening declaration
atīta — past — SN 35.186's own time-value, distinguished here from anāgata
paccuppanna — present — the third time-value, following next at SN 35.188
peyyāla — an elision mark — here compressing this discourse's own repeated liberation formula down to a trailing ellipsis
The text
The complete discourse, apart from its own closing ellipsis (Sujato's own English elides the liberation formula already spelled out at SN 35.186): the declaration. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Mendicants, in the future the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind will be impermanent …”
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Self-check quiz
5 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 5
What time-value does this discourse substitute for SN 35.186's own past?
Correct: A. Anāgataṁ — the second of round two's three time-values.
Question 2 of 5
How does this discourse handle the liberation formula SN 35.186 spelled out in full?
Correct: A. Sujato's own English trusts the reader to supply SN 35.186's own full formula.
Question 3 of 5
What third time-value follows this discourse, at SN 35.188?
Correct: A. SN 35.188 completes round two's opening trio with the present tense.
Question 4 of 5
What sense fields does this discourse address?
Correct: A. Ajjhattikāyatana, exactly as in SN 35.186; only the time-value changes.
Question 5 of 5
How does this discourse's own bilara-data file relate to SN 35.186's?
Correct: A. SN 35.186-188, like SN 35.168-170, are kept as three separate one-line files.