Saṃyukta Āgama, Volume 1, Part 5

The Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: One who lusts after the form aggregate lusts after suffering. One who delights in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering, cannot eradicate ignorance, and cannot abandon craving. One who lusts after the feeling aggregate, the perception aggregate, the volitional formations aggregate, or the consciousness aggregate is one who lusts after suffering. One who delights in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering, cannot eradicate ignorance, and cannot abandon craving. Why is one who lusts after and delights in the form aggregate, feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, volitional formations aggregate, or consciousness aggregate one who delights in suffering? Because lusting and delighting is a defiled mind, impure. Lusting after and delighting in the five aggregates binds one to the five aggregates; the mind becomes attached and cannot be liberated. Sentient beings have the affliction of self-love in their mental faculty, clinging to their own five aggregates, unwilling to extinguish the five aggregates. At the end of life, there will be an intermediate state. In the intermediate state, because the mental faculty clings to a self and desires a future body with form, one will take rebirth. Thus, the five aggregates of the next life arise. Where there are the five aggregates, there is suffering. Birth, aging, sickness, death, and immeasurable sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair continuously arise. Therefore, lusting after and delighting in the five aggregates is delighting in suffering.

The Blessed One further addressed the bhikkhus: One who does not lust after or delight in the form aggregate does not delight in suffering. One who does not delight in suffering can be liberated from suffering. Similarly, one who does not lust after or delight in the feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, volitional formations aggregate, or consciousness aggregate does not delight in suffering. One who does not delight in suffering can be liberated from suffering.

The Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: If one does not know, does not understand the form aggregate, one cannot abandon craving. Not abandoning craving, the mind cannot be liberated. If craving is not eradicated, if there is no liberation, one cannot end suffering and cannot be liberated from suffering. Similarly, if one does not know, does not understand the feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, volitional formations aggregate, or consciousness aggregate, one cannot abandon craving. Not abandoning craving, the mind cannot be liberated. If the mind is not liberated, one cannot end suffering.

The Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: If one can know, can understand the form aggregate, one can abandon craving. If one can abandon craving, the mind can be liberated. One whose mind is liberated can end suffering. Similarly, for the feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, volitional formations aggregate, and consciousness aggregate, if one can know, can understand them, one can abandon craving. If one can abandon craving, the mind can be liberated. One whose mind is liberated can extinguish suffering.