Where is the sutta passage for the following citation of the description of a kalpa?
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This seems to be from SN 15.5. You can find similar similes in other suttas of SN 15. SN is samyutta nikaya, in this case, not sutta nipata.
Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and asked him, “Sir, how long is an eon?”
“Mendicant, an eon is long. It’s not easy to calculate how many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it lasts.”
“But sir, is it possible to give a simile?”
“It’s possible,” said the Buddha.
“Suppose there was a huge stone mountain, a league long, a league wide, and a league high, with no cracks or holes, one solid mass. And as each century passed someone would stroke it with a fine cloth from Kāsī. By this means the huge stone mountain would be worn away before the eon comes to an end. That’s how long an eon is. And we’ve transmigrated through many such eons, many hundreds, many thousands, many hundreds of thousands.
Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
SN 15.5
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Try contemplating this while meditating :
“Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings. What three? Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These are the three feelings.”
Whether it be pleasant or painful Along with the neither-painful-nor-pleasant, Both the internal and the external, Whatever kind of feeling there is: Having known, “This is suffering, Perishable, disintegrating,” Having touched and touched them, seeing their fall, Thus one loses one’s passion for them
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