“The Ennobling Reality of Vexation (dukkha), monks, is this: Birth is vexation, aging is vexation, sickness is vexation, death is vexation, association with the unpleasant is vexation, dissociation from the pleasant is vexation, not to receive what one desires is vexation— in brief the five aggregates subject to grasping are vexation.
“The Ennobling Reality of the Origin (cause) of Vexation is this: It is this craving (thirst) which produces re-becoming (rebirth) accompanied by passionate greed, and finding fresh delight now here, and now there, namely craving for sense pleasure, craving for existence and craving for non-existence (self-annihilation).
“The Ennobling Reality of the Cessation of Vexation is this: It is the complete cessation of that very craving, giving it up, relinquishing it, liberating oneself from it, and detaching oneself from it.
“The Ennobling Reality of the Path Leading to the Cessation of Vexation is this: It is the Noble Eightfold Path, and nothing else, namely: wise understanding, wise thought, wise speech, wise action, wise livelihood, wise effort, wise mindfulness and wise unification of mind.
- SN 56.11