[822] Bhikkhus, dependent on the eye and forms there arises eye-consciousness; the meeting of the three is contact (phassa). With contact as condition there arises what is felt as pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant. Being touched by a pleasant feeling (vedanā), one delights in it, welcomes it, and remains holding to it; the underlying tendency (anusaya) to lust (rāga) lies latent in one. Being touched by a painful feeling, one sorrows, is wearied, laments, beats one's breast wailing, and falls into confusion; the underlying tendency to aversion (paṭigha) lies latent in one. Being touched by a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, one does not understand as it really is (yathābhūta) the origin, the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to that feeling; the underlying tendency to ignorance (avijjā) lies latent in one. Bhikkhus, that one — without having abandoned the underlying tendency to lust in regard to pleasant feeling, without having dispelled the underlying tendency to aversion in regard to painful feeling, without having uprooted the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, without having abandoned ignorance and without having given rise to true knowledge (vijjā) — will make an end of suffering (dukkha) in this very life: this is not possible.
Bhikkhus, dependent on the ear and sounds there arises ear-consciousness …
Bhikkhus, dependent on the nose and odours there arises nose-consciousness …
Bhikkhus, dependent on the tongue and tastes there arises tongue-consciousness …
Bhikkhus, dependent on the body and tangibles there arises body-consciousness …
Bhikkhus, dependent on the mind and mental phenomena (dhammas) there arises mind-consciousness; the meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition there arises what is felt as pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant. Being touched by a pleasant feeling, one delights in it, welcomes it, and remains holding to it; the underlying tendency to lust lies latent in one. Being touched by a painful feeling, one sorrows, is wearied, laments, beats one's breast wailing, and falls into confusion; the underlying tendency to aversion lies latent in one. Being touched by a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, one does not understand as it really is the origin, the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to that feeling; the underlying tendency to ignorance lies latent in one. Bhikkhus, that one — without having abandoned the underlying tendency to lust in regard to pleasant feeling, without having dispelled the underlying tendency to aversion in regard to painful feeling, without having uprooted the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, without having abandoned ignorance and without having given rise to true knowledge — will make an end of suffering in this very life: this is not possible.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.