3.
The Stick Discourse
1103.
"Just as, monks, a stick thrown up into the sky falls once on its root, falls once on its end;
so too, monks, beings hindered by ignorance, fettered by craving, transmigrating and wandering in the round of rebirths, once go from this world to the world beyond, once come from the world beyond to this world.
What is the reason for this?
Because of not seeing, monks, the four noble truths.
Which four?
The noble truth of suffering, etc.
the noble truth of the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.
"Therefore, monks, exertion is to be done regarding 'This is suffering', etc. exertion is to be done regarding 'This is the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.'" The third.