[580] At Sāvatthī. Then the wanderer Vacchagotta approached the Blessed One; having approached, he exchanged greetings with the Blessed One, and when the courteous and amiable talk was concluded, he sat down to one side. Sitting to one side, the wanderer Vacchagotta said this to the Blessed One: "What now, Master Gotama, is the cause, what is the condition, that these manifold speculative views arise in the world: 'the world is eternal,' or 'the world is not eternal,' … or 'the Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death'?"
"It is, Vaccha, because of not directly witnessing (appaccakkhakamma) form (rūpa), not directly witnessing the origin (samudaya) of form, not directly witnessing the cessation (nirodha) of form, not directly witnessing the way of practice leading to the cessation of form …"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.