Due to the obscuration of ignorance, there occurs, directed at rebirth
The conditioning of the action
Of the three types of formation.
Thus, there is migration between the realms. [26.1]

Consciousness, conditioned by formation,
Enters the realms.
Once consciousness has entered,
Name and form will manifest. [26.2]

When name and form have manifested,
The six sense sources will develop.
Dependent on the six sense sources,
Contact comes into being. [26.3]

It arises exclusively in dependence
On eye, form, and consciousness.
Thus, dependent on eye and form,
Consciousness will occur. [26.4]

Contact is the meeting
Of eye, form, and consciousness.
Out of this meeting
Arises sensation. [26.5]

Conditioned by sensation, there is craving,
Craving with respect to sensation.
When there is craving, there will be grasping,
Grasping in the fourfold way. [26.6]

Grasping will initiate
The becoming of the grasper.
Absence of grasping will result
In liberation free from becoming. [26.7]

Becoming is the five aggregates.
From becoming follows birth,
Aging and death, grief,
Lamentation, pain, [26.8]

Mental unrest, disturbance--
All of this occurs due to birth.
Thus arises this mass
Of nothing but suffering. [26.9]

Formation is the root of cyclic existence,
Therefore, the wise do not form.
The agents of that are the unwise;
Not the wise, for they see reality [26.10]

When ignorance has ceased,
Formation does not arise either.
The cessation of ignorance is accomplished
By meditating on reality through insight. [26.11]

As each of them ceases,
None of them will occur,
Thus, this mass of nothing but suffering
Will actually come to an end. [26.12]             <- Prev  Next ->