sn22.81:12.1 Perhaps they don’t regard form or feeling
sn22.81:12.2 or perception
sn22.81:12.3 or choices
sn22.81:12.4 or consciousness as self.
sn22.81:12.5 Nor do they have such a view:
sn22.81:12.6 ‘The self and the cosmos are one and the same. After death I will be that, permanent, everlasting, eternal, and imperishable.’
sn22.81:12.7 Nor do they have such a view:
sn22.81:12.8 ‘I might not be, and it might not be mine. I will not be, and it will not be mine.’
sn22.81:12.9 Still, they have doubts and uncertainties. They’re undecided about the true teaching.
sn22.81:12.10 That doubt and uncertainty, the indecision about the true teaching, is just a conditioned phenomenon.
sn22.81:12.11 And what’s the source of that conditioned phenomenon?
sn22.81:12.12 When an unlearned ordinary person is struck by feelings born of contact with ignorance, craving arises.
sn22.81:12.13 That conditioned phenomenon is born from that.
sn22.81:12.14 So that conditioned phenomenon is impermanent, conditioned, and dependently originated.
sn22.81:12.15 And that craving,
sn22.81:12.16 that feeling,
sn22.81:12.17 that contact,
sn22.81:12.18 and that ignorance are also impermanent, conditioned, and dependently originated.
sn22.81:12.19 That’s how you should know and see in order to end the defilements without delay.”