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Nidānasaṁyutta 3

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Linked Discourses 12.3

1. The Buddhas

Practice

1 At Sāvatthī.

“Mendicants, I will teach you the wrong practice and the right practice. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”

“Yes, sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this:

2 “And what’s the wrong practice? Ignorance is a requirement for choices.

Choices are a requirement for consciousness. … That is how this entire mass of suffering originates. This is called the wrong practice.

3 And what’s the right practice? When ignorance fades away and ceases with no residue left behind, choices cease. When choices cease, consciousness ceases. … That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases. This is called the right practice.”

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Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāsaṅgīti edition.

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