[SN 22.85](https://suttacentral.net/sn22.85/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false) says:
> “What do you think, friend Yamaka, do you regard form, feeling,
> perception, volitional formations and consciousness taken together as
> the Tathagata?”—
>
> “No, friend.”
> “If, friend Yamaka, they were to ask you: ‘Friend Yamaka, when a
> bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, what happens to
> him with the breakup of the body, after death?’—being asked thus, what
> would you answer?”
>
> “If they were to ask me this, friend, I would answer thus: ‘Friends,
> form is impermanent; what is impermanent is suffering [unsatisfactory]; what is
> suffering [unsatisfactory] has ceased and passed away. Feeling … Perception …
> Volitional formations … Consciousness is impermanent; what is
> impermanent is suffering [unsatisfactory]; what is suffering [unsatisfactory] has ceased and passed
> away.’ Being asked thus, friend, I would answer in such a way.”
>
> “Good, good, friend Yamaka!
Are the two excepts above contradictory? What is the precise analysis of SN 22.85 & SN 22.86 here?
Asked by Paraloka Dhamma Dhatu
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Nov 29, 2023, 01:00 AM
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