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The Second Discourse on Cases of Knowledge
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He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"I will teach you, monks, seventy-seven cases of knowledge.
Listen to that, pay close attention;
I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"What, monks, are the seventy-seven cases of knowledge? The knowledge that 'birth is the condition for ageing and death'; the knowledge that 'when birth is absent, there is no ageing and death'; the knowledge that in the past too 'birth is the condition for ageing and death', the knowledge that 'when birth is absent, there is no ageing and death'; the knowledge that in the future too 'birth is the condition for ageing and death', the knowledge that 'when birth is absent, there is no ageing and death'; the knowledge that whatever is that knowledge of the causal relationship of phenomena, that too is subject to destruction, having the nature of falling, subject to fading away, having the nature of cessation.
The knowledge that 'existence is the condition for birth', etc. the knowledge that 'clinging is the condition for existence', the knowledge that 'craving is the condition for clinging', the knowledge that 'feeling is the condition for craving', the knowledge that 'contact is the condition for feeling', the knowledge that 'the six sense bases are the condition for contact', the knowledge that 'mentality-materiality is the condition for the six sense bases', the knowledge that 'consciousness is the condition for mentality-materiality', the knowledge that 'activities are the condition for consciousness'; the knowledge that 'ignorance is the condition for activities', the knowledge that 'when ignorance is absent, there are no activities'; the knowledge that in the past too 'ignorance is the condition for activities', the knowledge that 'when ignorance is absent, there are no activities'; the knowledge that in the future too 'ignorance is the condition for activities', the knowledge that 'when ignorance is absent, there are no activities'; the knowledge that whatever is that knowledge of the causal relationship of phenomena, that too is subject to destruction, having the nature of falling, subject to fading away, having the nature of cessation. These are called, monks, the seventy-seven cases of knowledge." The fourth.