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The Discourse on Practice
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He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"I will teach you, monks, wrong practice and right practice.
Listen to that and attend closely,
I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"And what, monks, is wrong practice? With ignorance as condition, monks, activities; with activities as condition, consciousness; etc. Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. This is called, monks, wrong practice.
"And what, monks, is right practice? But from the complete fading away and cessation of ignorance comes the cessation of activities; from the cessation of activities comes the cessation of consciousness; etc. Thus is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering. This is called, monks, right practice." The third.