@ what the Buddha taught
Saṃyutta Nikāya
Nidānasaṃyuttaṃ
Dukkhasuttaṃ
SN12.43
At Sāvatthi ...
'Of suffering, almsmen, I shall point out and the rise, and the disappearance. Hear that, pay attention well, I will talk.'
OK, so those almsmen replied to the exalted one:
'Venerable'
The exalted one said this:
'And which is, almsmen, of suffering the rise?
Depending on and eye and forms arises eye-cognition. The going together of the three is the touch. With support of touch, feeling. With support of feeling, longing. OK this, almsmen, is of suffering the rise. Depending on and ear and sounds arises ear-cognition ... and nose and scents ... and tongue and tastes ... and body and to be touched ... and intellect and principles arises intellect-cognition. The going together of the three is the touch. With support of touch, feeling. With support of feeling, longing. OK this, almsmen, is of suffering the rise.
And which is, almsmen, of suffering the disappearance?
Depending on and eye and forms, arises eye-cognition. The going together of the three is the touch. With support of touch, feeling. With support of feeling, longing. Just like that, with complete fading and cessation of longing, cessation of taking up. With cessation of taking up, cessation of existence. With cessation of existence, cessation of birth. With cessation of birth, ageing-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, distress, unrest cease. So for this entire mass of suffering the cessation is. OK this, almsmen, is of suffering the disappearance.
Depending on and ear and sounds ... Depending on and nose and scents ... Depending on and tongue and tastes ... Depending on and body and to be touched ... Depending on and intellect and principles arises intellect-cognition. The going together of the three is the touch. With support of touch, feeling. With support of feeling, longing. With complete fading and cessation of just this longing, cessation of taking up. With cessation of taking up, cessation of existence. With cessation of existence, cessation of birth. With cessation of birth, ageing-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, distress, unrest cease. So for this entire mass of suffering the cessation is. OK this, almsmen, is of suffering the disappearance.'