ABSTRACT
Bodhisat yet unenlightened, thus: Alas I this world has. fallen upon trouble. There is getting born and growing old and dying and falling and arising, but there is not the knowing of an escape from suffering, from decay-and-death. 0 when shall an escape be revealed from suffering, from decayand-death? Then, brethren, this came to me: What now being, does decay-and-death come to be? What conditions decay-and-death? To me, brethren, thinking according to law came grasp of insight: Where there is birth, decayand-death comes to be ; decay-and-death is conditioned by birth: To me, brethren, came this: What now being, does birth come to be ? does becoming come to he ? does grasping come to be ? does craving come to be ? does feeling come to be? does contact come to be? does sense come to be ? does name-and-shape come to be ? what conditions name-and-shape? To me, brethren, thinking according to law, came grasp of insight: where there is consciousness, there is name-and-shape ; name-and-shape is conditioned by consciousness. To me, brethren, came this: what now being, does consciousness come to be? what conditions consciousness? To me, brethren, thinking according to law came grasp of insight: where there is name-and-shape, there is consciousness ; consciousness is conditioned by name-and-shape. To me, brethren, came this: This consciousness turns back, it goes no further than name-and-shape. Thus far are ye born, or grow old, or die, or fall, or arise. Consciousness, namely, comes to pass conditioned by nameand-shape, name-and-shape conditioned by consciousness, sense conditioned by name-and-shape, contact conditioned
by sense, whence come to pass, feeling, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, decay-and-death, with grief, lamenting, suffering, sorrow, despair-even such is the coming to be of this entire mass of ill.
