SN 35.22 — The Arising of Suffering (Exterior)

Reading guide

The full treatment, held to the very end

"The arising, continuation, and manifestation and regeneration of sights is the arising of suffering …" — genuinely uncompressed, matching SN 35.21's own fullness rather than following the pattern of SN 35.14, 35.16, 35.18, and 35.20's own compressed shape.

This vagga's own colophon and uddāna, untranslated

Unlike SN 34.55's own genuinely translated closing lines, this vagga's own colophon ("Yamakavaggo dutiyo," "Yamakavagga, the second, finished") and its own uddāna are both left untranslated in the English source, and are described here rather than quoted.

The uddāna's own explicit confirmation of this vagga's design

This vagga's own untranslated uddāna names all five pairs by their shared theme — awakening, gratification, the counterfactual, taking pleasure, and arising — each explicitly marked "duve" ("two"), and closes with "vaggo tena pavuccati" ("thus the vagga is so called"), confirming this vagga's own name, "Pairs," derives directly from its five-times-two structure.

Ten discourses, five pairs, this vagga's own design complete

With this discourse, Yamakavagga's own full ten-discourse, five-pair structure stands confirmed: two pairs compressed on their own exterior half only (SN 35.13–16), two more compressed the same way (SN 35.17–20), and one final pair given in full on both sides (SN 35.21–22) — a genuine variation this vagga's own compiler introduced at its own close.

Key terms

uppāda — arising — the first half of this discourse's own matched pair, applied here to the exterior sense objects

nirodha — cessation — the second half, the precise mirror of arising

Yamakavaggo dutiyo — "Yamakavagga, the second, finished" — the untranslated vagga colophon closing this discourse

vaggo tena pavuccati — "thus the vagga is so called" — the uddāna's own closing line, explicitly deriving this vagga's name from its five-pair structure

Sabbavagga — "the Chapter on Everything" — this saṃyutta's own third vagga, opening next at SN 35.23

The text

The complete discourse, given in full to match SN 35.21's own treatment. This vagga's own untranslated colophon and uddāna are described above rather than quoted, since the source itself leaves them untranslated. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).

§1“Mendicants, the arising, continuation, and manifestation and regeneration of sights 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 sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death.

§2The cessation, settling, and ending of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas is the cessation of suffering, the settling of diseases, and the disappearance of old age and death.”

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Self-check quiz

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Question 1 of 5

How does this discourse's treatment compare to SN 35.14's, 35.16's, 35.18's, and 35.20's own compressed shape?

Correct: A. A genuine structural break, shared only with SN 35.21.

Question 2 of 5

Is this vagga's own closing colophon translated in the source?

Correct: A. Unlike SN 34.55's own genuinely translated closing lines.

Question 3 of 5

What does this vagga's own uddāna explicitly confirm?

Correct: A. Naming all five pairs by theme, each marked "duve" ("two"), closing with "thus the vagga is so called."

Question 4 of 5

What overall pattern does Yamakavagga's own ten discourses confirm?

Correct: A. A genuine variation this vagga's own compiler introduced at its own close.

Question 5 of 5

What opens next, at SN 35.23?

Correct: A. Sabbavagga also contains the pre-existing SN 35.28, requiring the fragile-junction treatment noted in this module's own header.

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The Arising of Suffering (Exterior)

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