sn22.60:10.1 If feeling …
sn22.60:10.2 perception …
sn22.60:10.3 choices …
sn22.60:10.4 consciousness was absolutely pleasurable—soaked and steeped in pleasure and not steeped in pain—sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.
sn22.60:10.5 But because consciousness is painful—soaked and steeped in pain and not steeped in pleasure—sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.
sn22.60:10.6 Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they are purified.
sn22.60:10.7 This is a cause and reason for the purification of sentient beings.
sn22.60:10.8 This is how sentient beings are purified with cause and reason.”