SN35.80 — The Sick

The Second Discourse on the Abandoning of Ignorance

Then a certain disciple ... said this:

Is there, venerable sir, one thing by the abandoning of which a disciples ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises?

There is, disciple, one thing by the abandoning of which a disciples ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises.

But what, venerable sir, is that one thing by the abandoning of which a disciples ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises?

Ignorance, disciple, is the one thing by the abandoning of which a disciples ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises.

But how, venerable sir, does a disciple know and see so that his ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises?

Here, disciple, a disciple has heard: All things are not worth adhering to.

When a disciple has heard that all things are not worth adhering to, he directly knows all things. Having directly known all things, he fully understands all things.

Having fully understood all things, he sees all signs differently, the eye differently, forms ...

eye-consciousness ...

eye-contact ...

and whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition: whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant: that too he sees differently ...

the mind differently, mental phenomena ...

mind-consciousness ...

mind-contact ...

and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition: whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant: that too he sees differently.

It is in this way, disciple, that by knowing and seeing thus a disciples ignorance is abandoned and true knowing arises.

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