they’re qualified to be called ‘skilled in the sense fields’.” “But sir, how is a mendicant qualified to be called ‘skilled in dependent origination’?” Contact is a requirement for feeling. Feeling is a requirement for craving. Craving is a requirement for grasping. Grasping is a requirement for continued existence. Continued existence is a requirement for rebirth. Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be. That is how this ent