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The Discourse on the Abandoning of Ignorance
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At Sāvatthī.
Then a certain monk approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he paid respect to the Blessed One and sat down to one side.
Seated to one side, that monk said this to the Blessed One:
"How, venerable sir, for one knowing, for one seeing, is ignorance abandoned, does true knowledge arise?"
"The eye, monk, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Visible forms, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Eye-consciousness... Eye-contact... Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. The ear... the nose... The tongue... The body... The mind, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Mental phenomena... Mind-consciousness... Mind-contact... Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Thus, monk, for one knowing thus, for one seeing thus, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises." The first.