55.
Discourse on Non-realisation of Consciousness
661.
At Sāvatthī.
"Through not realising consciousness, Vaccha, through not realising the origin of consciousness, through not realising the cessation of consciousness, through not realising the practice leading to the cessation of consciousness;
thus 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.'
This, Vaccha, is the cause, this is the condition, by which these various wrong views arise in the world -
'The world is eternal' or 'the world is non-eternal' or 'the world is finite' or 'the world is infinite' or 'the soul is the same as the body' or 'the soul is one thing and the body another' or 'the Truth-finder exists after death' or 'the Truth-finder does not exist after death' or 'the Truth-finder both exists and does not exist after death' or 'the Truth-finder neither exists nor does not exist after death.'"
The fifty-fifth.