SN12.43 — Dukkha Sutta
At Sāvatthī, the Blessed One was residing. Disciples, I will teach you the arising and cessation of suffering. Listen carefully, pay close attention, and I will speak.
Yes, venerable sir, the disciples replied to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this: And what is the arising of suffering? Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a condition, there is feeling. With feeling as a condition, there is craving. This is the arising of suffering. Dependent on the ear and sounds, ear-consciousness arises... dependent on the nose and odors... dependent on the tongue and tastes... dependent on the body and tangibles... dependent on the mind and mental objects, mind-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a condition, there is feeling. With feeling as a condition, there is craving. This is the arising of suffering.
And what is the cessation of suffering? Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a condition, there is feeling. With feeling as a condition, there is craving. With the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very craving, there is cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of becoming; with the cessation of becoming, cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering.
This is the cessation of suffering. Dependent on the ear and sounds, ear-consciousness arises... dependent on the nose and odors... dependent on the tongue and tastes... dependent on the body and tangibles... dependent on the mind and mental objects, mind-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a condition, there is feeling. With feeling as a condition, there is craving. With the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very craving, there is cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of becoming; with the cessation of becoming, cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering. This is the cessation of suffering.