[396] "Might there be, by yet another method …?" … And how might there be? "Whatever suffering (dukkha) originates, all of it has contact (phassa) as its condition": this is one contemplation. "But with the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very contact, there is no origination of suffering": this is the second contemplation. For one who rightly contemplates the pairs (dvayatā) thus … Then the Teacher said this further:
For those overcome by contact,
who drift along the stream of existence (bhavasota),
who have entered upon the wrong path,
far off is the destruction of the fetters (saṃyojana).
But those who, having fully understood contact,
through wisdom¹ delight in peace—
they too,² with the ending of contact,
are free of hunger, fully quenched.
[Variant readings noted in the Siam Raṭṭha edition: ¹ Yu. (European ed.): saññāya ("perception"). ² Po.: abhibhū ("overcomer").]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.