6.
The Discourse about a Certain Brahmin
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He was dwelling at Sāvatthī.
Then a certain brahmin approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he exchanged friendly greetings with the Blessed One.
Having concluded the pleasant and memorable talk, he sat down to one side.
Seated to one side, that brahmin said this to the Blessed One -
"What then, Master Gotama, does the one who acts experience the result?" "'The one who acts experiences the result' - this, brahmin, is one extreme."
"What then, Master Gotama, does one act and another experience the result?" "'One acts, another experiences the result' - this, brahmin, is the second extreme. Not approaching these two extremes, brahmin, the Truth-finder expounds the Teaching by the middle - 'With ignorance as condition, activities; with activities as condition, consciousness; etc. Thus is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. 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.'"
When this was said, that brahmin said this to the Blessed One - "Excellent, Master Gotama, excellent, Master Gotama! Etc. May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forth for life." The sixth.