7.
The Second Discourse on the Abandoning of Ignorance
80.
Then a certain monk... etc.
said this -
"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 ignorance abandoned, does true knowledge arise?"
"Here, monk, a monk has heard: 'All phenomena are not fit for adherence.' And when this, monk, has been heard by a monk: 'All phenomena are not fit for adherence.' He directly knows all phenomena; having directly known all phenomena, he fully understands all phenomena; having fully understood all phenomena, he sees all signs as other, he sees the eye as other, material forms... eye-consciousness... Eye-contact... whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too he sees as other... etc. he sees the mind as other, 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 he sees as other. Thus, monk, for one knowing thus, for one seeing thus, a monk's ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises." The seventh.