sn12.35:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
BAGIAN 1
sn12.35:1.2 “Ignorance is a requirement for choices.
sn12.35:1.3 Choices are a requirement for consciousness. …
sn12.35:1.4 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.”
sn12.35:1.5 When this was said, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha,
sn12.35:1.6 “What are old age and death, sir, and who do they belong to?”
sn12.35:1.7 “That’s not a cogent question,” said the Buddha. “You might say, ‘What are old age and death, and who do they belong to?’ Or you might say, ‘Old age and death are one thing, who they belong to is another.’ But both of these mean the same thing, only the phrasing differs.
sn12.35:1.8 Mendicant, if you have the view that the soul and the body are one and the same, there is no living of the spiritual life.
sn12.35:1.9 If you have the view that the soul is one thing, the body another, there is no living of the spiritual life.
sn12.35:1.10 Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way:
sn12.35:1.11 ‘Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death.’”