The History of Buddhist Thought c13.9

c13.9

He then repeats it backwards and forwards negatively when what does not exist do old age and death not come to be? Or on the cessation of what is there the cessation of old age and death, ending with “ even so is the cessation of all this great mass of pain ”, and knowledge of the cessation of pain arises. “ At that time I duly knew : ‘ this is pain, this is the cause of the āsravas, this is the cessation of the āsravas, this is the path leading to the cessation of the āsravas.’ ” 1