Blessed One: Is there, Venerable Sir, any form, or any feeling,
or any perception, or any construction, or any consciousness,
that is permanent, stable, eternal, not a changing state, that
will remain the same, just like eternity itself ?
Then the Blessed One took up a tiny bit of soil on his fingernail
and said to that bhikkhu: Bhikkhu, there is not even this much
form, feeling, perception, construction, nor consciousness, that
is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, that will
remain the same, just like eternity itself...!!!
If there was this much form, feeling, perception, construction,
or consciousness, that was permanent, stable, eternal, and not
changing, this living of the Noble Life for the utterly complete
elimination of all suffering, could not be made known...
But because there is not even this much form, nor feeling, nor any
perception, nor construction, nor consciousness that is permanent,
stable, eternal, not subject to change, this living of the Noble Life
for the complete elimination of all suffering can be made known...
More on the Universal Fact of Impermanence:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
VANISHING
Impermanent, Momentary;
Are all phenomena existing.
Whoever fully perceives this with Insight
straightaway develops immunity to suffering.
This is a way to freedom. Dhammapada 227
