雜阿含經 287.p2

287.p2

It was then that the Bhagavān addressed the monks, “I recall a past life before I had achieved perfect awakening. I was alone in a quiet place, focused in meditative reflection, when this thought occurred to me: ‘The existence of what causes old and death to exist? The condition of what causes old age and death to exist?’ When I properly considered it, this true [understanding] occurred to me immediately: ‘Birth exists because existence exists. Birth exists because of the condition of existence.’ So it is with existence, grasping, craving, feeling, contact, the six senses, name and form.