4.
The Discourse on the Origin of the World
107.
"I will teach you, monks, the origin and passing away of the world.
Listen to that.
And what, monks, is the origin of the world?
Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises.
The meeting of the three is 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.
This, monks, is the origin of the world. Etc.
Dependent on the tongue and flavours, tongue-consciousness arises. Etc.
dependent on the mind and mind-objects, mind-consciousness arises.
The meeting of the three is 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.
This, monks, is the origin of the world.
"And what, monks, is the passing away of the world? Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving. From the complete fading away and cessation of that very craving comes the cessation of clinging; from the cessation of clinging comes the cessation of existence; from the cessation of existence comes the cessation of birth; from the cessation of birth, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish cease. Thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering. This, monks, is the passing away of the world. Etc. Dependent on the tongue and flavours arises. Etc. dependent on the mind and mind-objects, mind-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving. From the complete fading away and cessation of that very craving comes the cessation of clinging; from the cessation of clinging, etc. Thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering. This, monks, is the passing away of the world." The fourth.