[170] When he had sat down to one side, that brahmin said this to the Blessed One: "How is it, Master Gotama — does the very one who acts experience [the result]?"
"'The very one who acts experiences [the result]' — this, brahmin, is one extreme."
"Then, Master Gotama, does one act and another experience [the result]?"
"'One acts and another experiences [the result]' — this, brahmin, is the second extreme. Without approaching either of these two extremes, brahmin, the Tathāgata teaches the Dhamma by the middle: with ignorance (avijjā) as condition, volitional formations (saṅkhārā) [come to be]; with volitional formations as condition, consciousness (viññāṇa) … Thus is the origin of this entire mass of suffering (dukkhakkhandha). But with the remainderless fading away and cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of volitional formations; with the cessation of volitional formations, the cessation of consciousness … Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.