Whatever phenomena arise from cause:
their cause
and their cessation.
Such is the teaching of the Tathāgata,
the Great Contemplative. (Mv.I.23.5)
Notes
1. This reading follows the Thai edition. The Burmese and PTS editions say, “’A person of right view, a person of right view’ it is said.”
2. In passages where the Buddha defines stress, (e.g., SN 56:11, DN 22), he includes the statements, “association with the unbeloved is stressful; separation from the loved is stressful,” prior to “not getting what one wants is stressful.” For some reason, in passages where Ven. Sāriputta defines stress (here and at MN 28 and MN 141), he drops these statements from the definition.
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