[1730] But, bhikkhus, whatever ascetics or brahmins understand as it really is: 'This is suffering (dukkha)' … understand as it really is: 'This is the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering' — they do not delight in volitional formations that lead to birth; they do not delight in volitional formations that lead to aging; they do not delight in volitional formations that lead to death; they do not delight in volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. Not delighting in volitional formations that lead to birth, not delighting in volitional formations that lead to aging, not delighting in volitional formations that lead to death, not delighting in volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair, they do not generate volitional formations that lead to birth; they do not generate volitional formations that lead to aging; they do not generate volitional formations that lead to death; they do not generate volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. Having not generated volitional formations that lead to birth, having not generated volitional formations that lead to aging, having not generated volitional formations that lead to death, having not generated volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair, they do not fall into the precipice of birth; they do not fall into the precipice of aging; they do not fall into the precipice of death; they do not fall into the precipice of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. They are freed from birth, aging, and death; they are freed from sorrows, lamentations, pains, griefs, and despairs; they are freed from suffering, I say.
Therefore, bhikkhus, an exertion should be made [to understand]: 'This is suffering' … an exertion should be made [to understand]: 'This is the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering.'
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.