sn22.80:9.1 There are these two views.
sn22.80:9.2 Views favoring existence and views favoring nonexistence.
sn22.80:9.3 A learned noble disciple reflects on this:
sn22.80:9.4 ‘Is there anything in the world that I could grasp without fault?’
sn22.80:9.5 They understand:
sn22.80:9.6 ‘There’s nothing in the world that I could grasp without fault.
sn22.80:9.7 For in grasping I would grasp only at form, feeling,
sn22.80:9.8 perception,
sn22.80:9.9 choices, or consciousness.
sn22.80:9.10 That grasping of mine would be a condition for continued existence.
sn22.80:9.11 Continued existence is a requirement for rebirth.
sn22.80:9.12 Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be.
sn22.80:9.13 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.’