[80] How is it that attentive listening (sotāvadhāna) — "This is the noble truth of suffering (dukkha); this is the noble truth of the origin of suffering; this is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering; this is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering" — together with the wisdom that understands it, is knowledge born of what has been heard (sutamaye ñāṇaṃ)?
Therein, what is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering; aging is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with what is unloved is suffering; separation from what is loved is suffering; not to obtain what one wishes for — that too is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Therein, what is birth? That which, for these or those beings in this or that order of beings, is birth, being born, descent [into the womb], production, coming forth, the manifestation of the aggregates, the obtaining of the sense bases (āyatana) — this is called birth.
Therein, what is aging? That which, for these or those beings in this or that order of beings, is aging, agedness, brokenness of teeth, greyness of hair, wrinkledness of skin, the decline of the life span, the maturing of the faculties — this is called aging.
Therein, what is death? That which, for these or those beings, is the passing away from this or that order of beings, the passing on, the breakup, the disappearance, mortality, death, the completion of one's time, the breakup of the aggregates, the laying down of the carcass, the cutting off of the life faculty (jīvitindriya) — this is called death.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.