SN 20.7 Āṇi Sutta: The Drum Peg
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… in a future time there will be mendicants who won’t want to listen when discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—are being recited.
… that is how the discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—will disappear.
As an ancient drum has disintegrated, so too will the true teachings eventually be forgotten.