The Connected Discourses 12.44
The World
He dwells at Sāvatthī.
“Bhikkhus, I will teach the arising and passing away of the world.
Listen to this, attend carefully, I will speak.”
“Yes, bhante,” those bhikkhus replied to the Bhagavā.
The Bhagavā said this:
“And what, bhikkhus, is the arising of the world?
Dependent on the eye and forms [rūpe], eye-viññāṇa arises. The meeting of the three is contact.
With contact as condition, vedanā;
with vedanā as condition, taṇhā;
with taṇhā as condition, upādāna;
with upādāna as condition, bhava;
with bhava as condition, birth;
with birth as condition, old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, dukkha, distress, and despair come to be.
This, bhikkhus, is the arising of the world.
Dependent on the ear and sounds …
dependent on the nose and odors …
dependent on the tongue and tastes …
dependent on the body and tangibles …
dependent on the mind and dhammas, mind-viññāṇa arises. The meeting of the three is contact.
With contact as condition, vedanā …
with birth as condition, old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, dukkha, distress, and despair come to be.
This, bhikkhus, is the arising of the world.
And what, bhikkhus, is the passing away of the world?
Dependent on the eye and forms [rūpe], eye-viññāṇa arises. The meeting of the three is contact.
With contact as condition, vedanā;
with vedanā as condition, taṇhā.
With the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very taṇhā, there is cessation of upādāna;
with the cessation of upādāna, cessation of bhava …
thus there is the cessation of this whole mass of dukkha [dukkhakkhandhassa].
This, bhikkhus, is the passing away of the world.
Dependent on the ear and sounds …
dependent on the nose and odors …
dependent on the tongue and tastes …
dependent on the body and tangibles …
dependent on the mind and dhammas, mind-viññāṇa arises. The meeting of the three is contact.
With contact as condition, vedanā;
with vedanā as condition, taṇhā.
With the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very taṇhā, there is cessation of upādāna;
with the cessation of upādāna, cessation of bhava …
thus there is the cessation of this whole mass of dukkha [dukkhakkhandhassa].
This, bhikkhus, is the passing away of the world.”
The fourth.