The Buddha describes how dependent on the diversity of elements, there arises a diversity of contacts.

The Buddha teaches the bhikkhus that all feelings arise entirely dependent on contact. Just as pieces of wood create heat through friction, specific contact creates specific feeling. When the underlying contact ceases, the corresponding feeling ceases and subsides.

The Buddha describes how dependent on the diversity of elements, there arises a diversity of contacts, and not the other way around.

Consciousness arises in dependence on the duality of the six sense bases and their respective objects. Contact arises through the meeting of these three things. Contacted, one feels, intends, and perceives.

The Buddha systematically deconstructs sensory experience into six sets of six. By demonstrating the constant arising and passing away of the sense bases, consciousness, contact, felt experience, and craving, he dismantles the illusion of self, revealing the path to liberation.

The Buddha describes how dependent on the diversity of elements, there arises a diversity of perceptions, intentions, contacts, felt experiences connected with contact, desires, fevers, quests, and acquisitions.

In the far past, the Buddha Vessabhū prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.

Seeing the vanishing nature of the experience that arises with each contact—whether felt as pleasant, painful, or as neither-painful-nor-pleasant—one becomes dispassionate towards it.

In a chance meeting, the Buddha, unrecognized by the bhikkhu Pukkusāti, teaches him to deconstruct experience into six elements, six fields of contact, eighteen mental explorations, and four foundations. He further reveals that all notions of self—such as “I am this” or “I will be that”—are mere conceptions, inherently afflictive, and the peace of Nibbāna is realized by overcoming all conceptual proliferations.

The Buddha describes the conduct of a person who is said to be ‘peaceful’. Such a person is free from craving before the breaking up of body. He is one who examines distinctions in all contacts, withdrawn, straightforward, unassuming, unmoved amid views, not holding to a construct, and for whom, there is no ‘mine’ in the world.

The Buddha praises Sāriputta for his “sequential discernment of mental states.” Entering each successive escape from the defilements, Sāriputta precisely identifies every factor present in the jhānas and formless abidings through observing their arising, persisting, and passing away.