[173] Sitting to one side, the brahmin Jāṇussoṇi said this to the Blessed One: "How is it, Master Gotama — does all exist?"
"'All exists,' brahmin: this is one extreme."
"Then, Master Gotama, does all not exist?"
"'All does not exist,' brahmin: this 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 (samudaya) of this whole mass of suffering (dukkha). But with the remainderless fading away and cessation (nirodha) 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 whole mass of suffering."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.