Reading guide
One substitution: anāgata for atīta
“In the future the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind will be impermanent. What's impermanent is suffering…” replaces SN 35.204's own past-tense declaration; the remainder of the chain is trusted to the reader's own memory of SN 35.204's full text.
Key terms
anāgata — future — this discourse's own time-value, the second of round three's three
yadaniccaṁ, taṁ dukkhaṁ — “what's impermanent is suffering” — the one step of the chain still spelled out here before the ellipsis takes over
atīta — past — SN 35.204's own time-value, distinguished here from anāgata
paccuppanna — present — the third time-value, following next at SN 35.206
peyyāla — an elision mark — here compressing three of the chain's own four steps down to a trailing ellipsis
The text
The complete discourse, apart from its own closing ellipsis (Sujato's own English elides the chain's remaining steps, already spelled out at SN 35.204): the declaration and the chain's own first step. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Mendicants, in the future the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind will be impermanent. What’s impermanent is suffering …”
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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 35.204's own past?
Correct: A. Anāgataṁ — the second of round three's three time-values.
Question 2 of 5
How much of the chain formula does this discourse's own rendered text still spell out, before the ellipsis?
Correct: A. Sujato's own English keeps one step visible before compressing the rest.
Question 3 of 5
What third time-value follows this discourse, at SN 35.206?
Correct: A. SN 35.206 completes round three'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 35.204; only the time-value changes.
Question 5 of 5
How does this discourse's own bilara-data file relate to SN 35.204's?
Correct: A. SN 35.204-206, like SN 35.168-170 and 186-188 before it, are kept as three separate one-line files.