Monks, dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

Dependent on the ear and sounds, ear-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

Dependent on the nose and odors, nose-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

Dependent on the tongue and flavors, tongue-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

Dependent on the body and physical objects, body-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

Dependent on the mind and mental objects, mind-consciousness arises; the meeting of the three is contact; with contact as condition, there arises [a feeling] felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful-nor-pleasant.

When one is touched by a pleasant feeling, if one excites in it, welcomes it, and remains holding to it, then the underlying tendency to crave lies within one.

When one is touched by a painful feeling, if one sorrows, grieves and has displeasure, weeps beating one’s breast and becomes distraught, then the underlying tendency to aversion lies within one.

When one is touched by a neither painful-nor-pleasant feeling, if one does not understand as it actually is, the cause, the disappearance, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to that feeling, then the underlying tendency to ignorance (unknowing of true reality) lies within one.

Monks, that one shall here and now make an end of discontentedness without abandoning the underlying tendency to crave for pleasant feelings, without abolishing the underlying tendency to aversion towards painful feelings, without eliminating the underlying tendency to ignorance (unknowing of true reality) in regard to neither painful-nor-pleasant feelings, without abandoning ignorance and arousing true wisdom - this is impossible.