{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.15/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.15","id":"suttacentral_sn12.15","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.15/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then Venerable Kacc\u0101nagotta went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of this thing called \u2018right view\u2019. How is right view defined?\u201d \u201cKacc\u0101na, this world mostly relies on the duality of existence and non-existence. But for one who truly sees the origin of the world with right understanding, the concept of non-existence regarding the world does not occur. And for one who truly sees the cessation of the world with right understanding, the concept of existence regarding the world does not occur. This world is for the most part shackled by getting involved, grasping, and insisting. But if, when it comes to this getting involved & grasping, mental fixation, and insistence & underlying tendency, they are not attracted, do not grasp, and do not fixate on the thought, \u201cmy self\u201d, they\u2019ll have no doubt or uncertainty that what arises is just suffering arising, and what ceases is just suffering ceasing. Their knowledge of this is independent of others. This is how right view is defined. \u2018All exists\u2019: this is one extreme. \u2018All does not exist\u2019: this is the second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way: \u2018Ignorance is a requirement for choices. Choices are a requirement for consciousness. \u2026 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates. When ignorance fades away and ceases with no residue left behind, choices cease. When choices cease, consciousness ceases. \u2026 That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.\u2019\u201d","title":"Kacc\u0101nagotta","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":254}