MN 38 has the following two different or opposite verses on the arising of suffering & the ceasing of suffering:
> *On seeing a form with the eye, he lusts after it if it is pleasing; he dislikes it if it is unpleasing. He abides with mindfulness of the
> body unestablished, with a limited mind, and he does not understand as
> it actually is the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom
> wherein those evil unwholesome states cease without remainder. Engaged
> as he is in favouring and opposing, whatever feeling he feels—whether
> pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—he delights in
> that feeling, welcomes it, and remains holding to it. As he does so,
> delight arises in him. Now delight in feelings is clinging. With his
> clinging as condition, being comes to be; with being as condition,
> birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation,
> pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is **the origin** of this whole
> mass of suffering.*
>
> *On seeing a form with the eye, he does not lust after it if it is pleasing; he does not dislike it if it is unpleasing. He abides with
> mindfulness of the body established, with an immeasurable mind, and he
> understands as it actually is the deliverance of mind and deliverance
> by wisdom wherein those evil unwholesome states cease without
> remainder. Having thus abandoned favouring and opposing, whatever
> feeling he feels, whether pleasant or painful or
> neither-painful-nor-pleasant, he does not delight in that feeling,
> welcome it, or remain holding to it. As he does not do so, delight in
> feelings ceases in him. With the cessation of his delight comes
> cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of
> being; with the cessation of being, cessation of birth; with the
> cessation of birth, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain,
> grief, and despair cease. Such is **the cessation** of this whole mass of
> suffering.*
Although these two verses are different, what is common to both verses is the event of: "*on seeing a form with the eye*".
How do aging-&-death cease when the eye sees a form?
Asked by Paraloka Dhamma Dhatu
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Dec 8, 2018, 03:23 AM
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