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17. Sixty Abbreviated Texts
186. The Interior Was Impermanent in the Past
“Mendicants, in the past the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind were impermanent. Seeing this, a learned noble disciple becomes disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Being disillusioned, they become dispassionate. Being dispassionate they’re freed. When freed, they know ‘it is freed’. They understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is no return to any state of existence.’”