[271] Therein, Aggivessana, as for those ascetics and brahmins who speak thus and hold this view (diṭṭhi): "Everything is acceptable to me" — regarding that, a wise person reflects thus: "This view of mine, 'Everything is acceptable to me' — if I were to adhere to this view obstinately, cling to it, and declare, 'This alone is true; anything else is vain,' then I would have conflict with two: with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Nothing is acceptable to me,' and with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Something is acceptable to me, something is not acceptable to me' — with these two I would have conflict. When there is conflict, there is dispute; when there is dispute, there is vexation; when there is vexation, there is harm." Thus, seeing in himself conflict, dispute, vexation, and harm, he abandons that very view and does not take up another view. Thus there comes to be the abandoning of these views; thus there comes to be the relinquishing of these views.
Therein, Aggivessana, as for those ascetics and brahmins who speak thus and hold this view: "Nothing is acceptable to me" — regarding that, a wise person reflects thus: "This view of mine, 'Nothing is acceptable to me' — if I were to adhere to this view obstinately, cling to it, and declare, 'This alone is true; anything else is vain,' then I would have conflict with two: with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Everything is acceptable to me,' and with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Something is acceptable to me, something is not acceptable to me' — with these two I would have conflict. When there is conflict, there is dispute; when there is dispute, there is vexation; when there is vexation, there is harm." Thus, seeing in himself conflict, dispute, vexation, and harm, he abandons that very view and does not take up another view. Thus there comes to be the abandoning of these views; thus there comes to be the relinquishing of these views.
Therein, Aggivessana, as for those ascetics and brahmins who speak thus and hold this view: "Something is acceptable to me, something is not acceptable to me" — regarding that, a wise person reflects thus: "This view of mine, 'Something is acceptable to me, something is not acceptable to me' — if I were to adhere to this view obstinately, cling to it, and declare, 'This alone is true; anything else is vain,' then I would have conflict with two: with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Everything is acceptable to me,' and with the ascetic or brahmin who speaks thus and holds this view, 'Nothing is acceptable to me' — with these two I would have conflict. When there is conflict, there is dispute; when there is dispute, there is vexation; when there is vexation, there is harm." Thus, seeing in himself conflict, dispute, vexation, and harm, he abandons that very view and does not take up another view. Thus there comes to be the abandoning of these views; thus there comes to be the relinquishing of these views.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.