sn12.18:4.1 “Suppose that the feeling and the one who feels it are one and the same. Then for one who has existed since the beginning, pleasure and pain is made by oneself. I don’t say this.
sn12.18:4.2 Suppose that the feeling is one thing and the one who feels it is another. Then for one stricken by feeling, pleasure and pain is made by another. I don’t say this.
sn12.18:4.3 Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way:
sn12.18:4.4 ‘Ignorance is a requirement for choices.
sn12.18:4.5 Choices are a requirement for consciousness. …
sn12.18:4.6 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.
sn12.18:4.7 When ignorance fades away and ceases with no residue left behind, choices cease.
sn12.18:4.8 When choices cease, consciousness ceases. …
sn12.18:4.9 That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.’”