6-10.
Five Discourses Beginning with Non-Seeing of Matter
612-616.
At Sāvatthī.
Seated to one side, the wandering ascetic Vacchagotta said this to the Blessed One:
"What, Master Gotama, is the cause, what is the condition, by which these various wrong views arise in the world -
'The world is eternal' or 'the world is non-eternal' etc.
'The Truth-finder neither exists nor does not exist after death'?"
"Through not seeing matter, Vaccha, etc.
through not seeing the practice leading to the cessation of matter, etc.
in feeling, etc.
in perception,
Through not seeing activities, Vaccha, etc.
Through not seeing consciousness, Vaccha, etc.
through not seeing the practice leading to the cessation of consciousness, etc.
The tenth.