sn22.100:4.1 Suppose an artist or painter had some dye, red lac, turmeric, indigo, or rose madder. And on a polished plank or a wall or a canvas they’d create the form of a woman or a man, whole in its major and minor limbs.
sn22.100:4.2 In the same way, when an unlearned ordinary person generates a future life, all they generate is form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.
sn22.100:4.3 What do you think, mendicants?
sn22.100:4.4 Is form permanent or impermanent?”
sn22.100:4.5 “Impermanent, sir.”
sn22.100:4.6 “Is feeling …
sn22.100:4.7 perception …
sn22.100:4.8 choices …
sn22.100:4.9 consciousness permanent or impermanent?” …
sn22.100:4.10 “So you should truly see …
sn22.100:4.11 Seeing this …
sn22.100:4.12 They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this place.’”