[96] Then a certain bhikkhu … "Venerable sir, is there one thing (dhamma) through the abandoning of which ignorance (avijjā) is abandoned by a bhikkhu and true knowledge (vijjā) arises?"
"There is, bhikkhu, one thing through the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned by a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises."
"But what, venerable sir, is that one thing through the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned by a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises?"
"Ignorance, bhikkhu, is the one thing through the abandoning of which ignorance is abandoned by a bhikkhu and true knowledge arises."
"But how, venerable sir, does a bhikkhu know, how does he see, so that ignorance is abandoned by him and true knowledge arises?"
"Here, bhikkhu, a bhikkhu has heard: 'All dhammas are not worth adhering to (abhinivesa).' And when, bhikkhu, a bhikkhu has heard thus: 'All dhammas are not worth adhering to,' he directly knows every dhamma; having directly known every dhamma, he fully understands every dhamma; having fully understood every dhamma, he sees all signs (nimitta) differently: he sees the eye differently; he sees forms, eye-consciousness, eye-contact, and whatever feeling (vedanā) arises with eye-contact as condition—whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that too he sees differently. … He sees the mind differently; he sees dhammas, mind-consciousness, mind-contact, and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition—whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that too he sees differently. When a bhikkhu knows thus, bhikkhu, and sees thus, ignorance is abandoned by him and true knowledge arises."
The seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.