‘Venerable Sir, it is said, ‘the conduit to existence, the conduit to existence.’ What, Venerable Sir, is the conduit to existence, and what is the elimination of the conduit to existence?’

Rādha, the craving, desire, excitement, lust, engagement and clinging, mental standpoints, adherences, and underlying tendencies regarding form; this is called the conduit to existence. Their elimination is the elimination of the conduit to existence.

The craving, desire, excitement, lust, engagement and clinging, mental standpoints, adherences, and underlying tendencies regarding feeling; this is called the conduit to existence. Their elimination is the elimination of the conduit to existence.

The craving, desire, excitement, lust, engagement and clinging, mental standpoints, adherences, and underlying tendencies regarding perception; this is called the conduit to existence. Their elimination is the elimination of the conduit to existence.

The craving, desire, excitement, lust, engagement and clinging, mental standpoints, adherences, and underlying tendencies regarding volitional formations (choices/decisions); this is called the conduit to existence. Their elimination is the elimination of the conduit to existence.

The craving, desire, excitement, lust, engagement and clinging, mental standpoints, adherences, and underlying tendencies regarding consciousness; this is called the conduit to existence. Their elimination is the elimination of the conduit to existence.

(Reference: SN 23.3)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares “the conduit to existence”.

The Buddha is explaining that the mind clinging to The Five Aggregates is “the conduit to existence”. “The conduit to existence” is a means for it to continue. As long as the mind is clinging to The Five Aggregates, there will be continued rebirth. Training the mind to let go of The Five Aggregates, the mind is liberated from discontentedness and existence in The Cycle of Rebirth.