Reading guide
The five aggregates, arising as suffering's own arising
"The arising, continuation, and manifestation and regeneration of form is the arising of suffering... feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness is the arising of suffering..." — the aggregates receiving the identical formula given to all nine categories before them, in full, unelided.
Ten discourses, one identity, restated one final time
"The cessation, settling, and disappearance of form is the cessation of suffering... feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness... is the disappearance of old age and death" — closing this saṃyutta's own arising/cessation identity with the category most readers of this project will already recognize from Khandhavagga's own 159-discourse dedicated treatment.
A colophon Sujato actually translated
"The Linked Discourses on arising are complete" (sn26.10:2.5) — quotable here exactly as Sujato rendered it, confirming this saṃyutta's official name and its complete ten discourses, matching SN 25.10's own translated closing colophon word for word in form if not content.
Two sister saṃyuttas, side by side
Looking back across both SN 25 and SN 26 together: the identical ten-category sequence (sense faculties through the aggregates), examined first through the lens of who is progressing toward stream-entry (Okkantasaṃyutta), then through the lens of what suffering itself directly consists of (Uppādasaṃyutta) — two complementary readings of the same underlying material, back to back in this book's own sequence.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, the arising, continuation, and manifestation and regeneration of form is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death. The arising, continuation, and manifestation and regeneration of feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death.
§2The cessation, settling, and disappearance of form is the cessation of suffering, the settling of diseases, and the disappearance of old age and death. The cessation, settling, and ending of feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness is the cessation of suffering, the settling of diseases, and the disappearance of old age and death.”
§3The Linked Discourses on arising are complete.
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