[95] Then a certain bhikkhu approached the Blessed One … Sitting to one side, that bhikkhu said to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, is there one thing (dhamma) by the abandoning of which ignorance (avijjā) is abandoned for a bhikkhu and true knowledge (vijjā) arises?"
"There is, bhikkhu, one thing by the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned for a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises."
"But what, venerable sir, is that one thing by the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned for a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises?"
"Ignorance, bhikkhu, is the one thing by the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned for a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises."
"But how, venerable sir, does a bhikkhu know, how does he see, so that ignorance is abandoned for him and true knowledge arises?"
"Bhikkhu, when a bhikkhu knows and sees the eye as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned for him and true knowledge arises. When he knows and sees forms … Whatever feeling (vedanā) arises with eye-contact as condition—whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—when he knows and sees that too as impermanent, ignorance is abandoned for the bhikkhu and true knowledge arises. It is when a bhikkhu knows thus, bhikkhu, and sees thus that ignorance is abandoned for him and true knowledge arises."
The sixth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.