sn12.24:21.1 Suppose they were to ask me:
sn12.24:21.2 ‘What is the source of grasping?’ …
sn12.24:21.3 craving …
sn12.24:21.4 feeling …
sn12.24:21.5 Suppose they were to ask me:
sn12.24:21.6 ‘What is the source of contact?’
sn12.24:21.7 I’d answer like this:
sn12.24:21.8 ‘The six sense fields are the source, origin, birthplace, and inception of contact.’
sn12.24:21.9 ‘When the six fields of contact fade away and cease with no residue left behind, contact ceases.
sn12.24:21.10 When contact ceases, feeling ceases.
sn12.24:21.11 When feeling ceases, craving ceases.
sn12.24:21.12 When craving ceases, grasping ceases.
sn12.24:21.13 When grasping ceases, continued existence ceases.
sn12.24:21.14 When continued existence ceases, rebirth ceases.
sn12.24:21.15 When rebirth ceases, old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress cease.
sn12.24:21.16 That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.’
sn12.24:21.17 That’s how I’d answer such a question.”