{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn12-44.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn12-44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn12-44.htm","text":"\"As you say, lord,\" the monks responded to the Blessed One.\nThe Blessed One said: \"And what is the origination of the world? Dependent on the eye & forms there arises eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. This is the origination of the world.\n\"Dependent on the ear & sounds there arises ear-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the nose & aromas there arises nose-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the tongue & flavors there arises tongue-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the body & tactile sensations there arises body-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the intellect & mental qualities there arises intellect-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. This is the origination of the world.\n\"And what is the ending of the world? Dependent on the eye & forms there arises eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. Now, from the remainderless cessation & fading away of that very craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering. This is the ending of the world.\n\"Dependent on the ear & sounds there arises ear-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the nose & aromas there arises nose-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the tongue & flavors there arises tongue-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the body & tactile sensations there arises body-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact...Dependent on the intellect & mental qualities there arises intellect-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. Now, from the remainderless cessation & fading away of that very craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering. This is the ending of the world.\"","title":"SN XII.44: Loka Sutta","type":"page"}