[229] "Suppose, Ānanda, there were a great tree. Then a man would come, taking a spade and basket. He would cut that tree down at the root; having cut it at the root, he would dig it up; having dug it up, he would pull out the roots, even down to the fine rootlets the size of usīra-grass fibers. He would cut that tree into pieces; having cut it into pieces, he would split them; having split them, he would reduce them to slivers; having reduced them to slivers, he would dry them in the wind and sun; having dried them in the wind and sun, he would burn them with fire; having burnt them with fire, he would reduce them to ashes; having reduced them to ashes, he would winnow them in a strong wind or let them be carried away by a swiftly flowing river. Thus indeed, Ānanda, that great tree would be cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, brought to non-existence, no longer subject to arise in the future. So too, Ānanda, for one who dwells contemplating danger (ādīnava) in things that can be clung to (upādāniyā dhammā), craving (taṇhā) ceases. From the cessation (nirodha) of craving comes the cessation of clinging (upādāna); from the cessation of clinging, the cessation of existence (bhava); from the cessation of existence, the cessation of birth (jāti); from the cessation of birth, aging and death (jarā-maraṇa), together with sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair, cease. Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering (dukkha)."
The Tenth [Sutta].
The Chapter on Suffering, the Sixth.
[Footnote 1: The Burmese (M.) and PTS (Yu.) editions read *chinditvā*.]
Its summary verse (uddāna):
Full Investigation, Clinging,
and the two on Fetters;
two spoken with the Great Tree,
and the seventh with the Sapling;
Name-and-Form and Consciousness,
and with Source — these are the ten.
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The Great Chapter, the Seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.