sn22.90:9.1 “Reverend Channa, I heard and learned in the presence of the Buddha his advice to the mendicant Kaccānagotta:
sn22.90:9.2 ‘Kaccāna, this world mostly relies on the duality of existence and non-existence.
sn22.90:9.3 But for one who truly sees the origin of the world with right understanding, the concept of non-existence regarding the world does not occur.
sn22.90:9.4 And for one who truly sees the cessation of the world with right understanding, the concept of existence regarding the world does not occur.
sn22.90:9.5 This world is for the most part shackled by getting involved, grasping, and insisting.
sn22.90:9.6 But if—for all that getting involved and grasping, mental fixation, and insistence and underlying tendency—they do not get attracted, grasp, and fixate on the thought, ‘my self’,
sn22.90:9.7 they’ll have no doubt or uncertainty that what arises is just suffering arising, and what ceases is just suffering ceasing.
sn22.90:9.8 Their knowledge of this is independent of others.
sn22.90:9.9 This is how right view is defined.
sn22.90:9.10 “All exists”: this is one extreme.
sn22.90:9.11 “All does not exist”: this is the second extreme.
sn22.90:9.12 Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way:
sn22.90:9.13 “Ignorance is a requirement for choices.
sn22.90:9.14 Choices are a requirement for consciousness. …
sn22.90:9.15 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.
sn22.90:9.16 When ignorance fades away and ceases with no residue left behind, choices cease. …
sn22.90:9.17 That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.”’”