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Suffering With Its Cause

Sahetudukkhasutta

Since the causes of the aggregates are suffering, how can the aggregates be free of suffering?

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.19Linked Discourses 22.19
  • 0.22. Aniccavagga2. Impermanence

0.3SahetudukkhasuttaSuffering With Its Cause

1.1PTS 3.24Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Rūpaṁ, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ.“Mendicants, form is suffering.1.3Yopi hetu yopi paccayo rūpassa uppādāya, sopi dukkho.The cause and reason that gives rise to form is also suffering.1.4Dukkhasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, rūpaṁ kuto sukhaṁ bhavissati.Since form is produced by what is suffering, how could it be happiness?

1.5Vedanā dukkhā …Feeling is suffering …

1.6saññā dukkhā …Perception is suffering …

1.7saṅkhārā dukkhā …Choices are suffering …

1.8viññāṇaṁ dukkhaṁ.Consciousness is suffering.1.9Yopi hetu yopi paccayo viññāṇassa uppādāya, sopi dukkho.The cause and reason that gives rise to consciousness is also suffering.1.10Dukkhasambhūtaṁ, bhikkhave, viññāṇaṁ kuto sukhaṁ bhavissati.Since consciousness is produced by what is suffering, how could it be happiness?

1.11Evaṁ passaṁ …pe…Seeing this …1.12nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this place.’”

1.13Aṭṭhamaṁ.