Cases of Knowledge (2)

SN 12:34 Cases of Knowledge (2)

Translated by John D. Ireland

“Bhikkhus, I will teach you the seventy-seven sources of knowledge … Now, what, Bhikkhus, are the seventy-seven?

“The knowledge that aging-and-death is conditioned by birth; the knowledge that there being no birth there is no aging-and-death; the knowledge that in the past aging-and-death was conditioned by birth; the knowledge that had there been no birth there would have been no aging-and-death; the knowledge that in the future aging-and-death will be conditioned by birth; the knowledge that if there is no birth there will be no aging-and-death; the knowledge that whatever there is of knowledge concerning the relatedness of phenomena, this is also of a nature to decay, to pass away, to be destroyed and to cease.