[405] "There might be [right contemplation] by yet another method" … And how might there be? Bhikkhus, whatever has been regarded by the world with its devas, Māra, and Brahmā, by this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, its devas and humans, thus: "This is true" — that has been well seen by the noble ones with right wisdom, as it really is (yathābhūta), thus: "This is false." This is one contemplation. Bhikkhus, whatever has been regarded by the world with its devas … its devas and humans thus: "This is false" — that has been well seen by the noble ones with right wisdom, as it really is, thus: "This is true." This is the second contemplation. For one rightly contemplating the duality (dvayatā) thus … Then further the Teacher said this:
Behold the world with its devas,
conceiving self in what is not self (anattā);
entrenched in name-and-form (nāmarūpa),
it conceives: "This is true."
In whatever way they conceive it,
it turns out otherwise than that;
for that is what is false in it,
since the fleeting is deceptive by nature.
Nibbāna is undeceptive by nature —
that the noble ones know as true;
they indeed, by the breakthrough to truth,
are hungerless, fully quenched.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.