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The Discourse on Analysis
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He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"I will teach you, monks, dependent origination and I will analyse it.
Listen to that, pay close attention;
I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"And what, monks, is dependent origination? With ignorance as condition, monks, activities; with activities as condition, consciousness; with consciousness as condition, mentality-materiality; with mentality-materiality as condition, the six sense bases; with the six sense bases as condition, contact; with contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving; with craving as condition, clinging; with clinging as condition, existence; with existence as condition, birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish come to be. Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
"And what, monks, is ageing and death? Whatever ageing, decaying, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, deterioration of life span, maturing of the faculties of those various beings in those various orders of beings; this is called ageing. Whatever passing away, decease, breaking up, disappearance, death, dying, making of time, breaking up of the aggregates, discarding of the body of those various beings from those various orders of beings, this is called death. Thus this ageing and this death. This is called, monks, ageing and death.
"And what, monks, is birth? Whatever birth, coming into being, descent, production, reconception, manifestation of the aggregates, acquisition of the sense bases of those various beings in those various orders of beings. This is called, monks, birth.
"And what, monks, is existence? There are, monks, these three existences - sensual existence, fine-material existence, immaterial existence. This is called, monks, existence.
"And what, monks, is clinging? There are, monks, these four kinds of clinging - clinging to sensual pleasures, clinging to views, clinging to moral rules and austerities, clinging to the doctrine of self. This is called, monks, clinging.
"And what, monks, is craving? There are, monks, these six classes of craving - craving for visible form, craving for sound, craving for odour, craving for flavour, craving for tangible object, craving for mental objects. This is called, monks, craving.
"And what, monks, is feeling? There are, monks, these six classes of feeling - feeling born of eye-contact, feeling born of ear-contact, feeling born of nose-contact, feeling born of tongue-contact, feeling born of body-contact, feeling born of mind-contact. This is called, monks, feeling.
"And what, monks, is contact? There are, monks, these six classes of contact - eye-contact, ear-contact, nose-contact, tongue-contact, body-contact, mind-contact. This is called, monks, contact.
"And what, monks, is the six sense bases? The eye sense base, the ear sense base, the nose sense base, the tongue sense base, the body sense base, the mind sense base - this is called, monks, the six sense bases.
"And what, monks, is mentality-materiality? Feeling, perception, volition, contact, attention - this is called mentality. The four primary elements and the materiality derived from the four primary elements. This is called materiality. Thus this mentality and this materiality. This is called, monks, mentality-materiality.
"And what, monks, is consciousness? There are, monks, these six classes of consciousness - eye-consciousness, ear-consciousness, nose-consciousness, tongue-consciousness, body-consciousness, mind-consciousness. This is called, monks, consciousness.
"And what, monks, are activities? There are these three activities, monks - bodily activity, verbal activity, mental activity. These are called, monks, activities.
"And what, monks, is ignorance? Whatever, monks, is not knowing suffering, not knowing the origin of suffering, not knowing the cessation of suffering, not knowing the practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This is called, monks, ignorance.
"Thus indeed, monks, with ignorance as condition, activities; with activities as condition, consciousness; etc. Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. But from the complete fading away and cessation of ignorance comes the cessation of activities; from the cessation of activities comes the cessation of consciousness; etc. thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering." The second.