6.
The First Discourse on the Abandoning of Ignorance
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Then a certain monk approached the Blessed One, etc.
Seated to one side, that monk said this to the Blessed One -
"Is there indeed, venerable sir, one thing by the abandoning of which a monk's ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge arises?"
"There is indeed, monk, one thing by the abandoning of which a monk's ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge arises."
"But which, venerable sir, is that one thing by the abandoning of which a monk's ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge arises?"
"Ignorance, monk, is that one thing by the abandoning of which a monk's ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge arises."
"But how, venerable sir, for one knowing, for one seeing, is a monk's ignorance abandoned and true knowledge arises?"
"The eye, monk, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, a monk's ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Forms... 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, a monk's ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises, etc. The mind, for one knowing, for one seeing as impermanent, a monk's 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, a monk's ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. Thus, monk, for one knowing thus, for one seeing thus, a monk's ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises." The sixth.