{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.79/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.79","id":"suttacentral_sn35.79","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.79/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha \u2026 and said to him: \u201cSir, is there one thing such that by giving it up a mendicant gives up ignorance and gives rise to knowledge?\u201d \u201cThere is, mendicant.\u201d \u201cBut what is that one thing?\u201d \u201cIgnorance is one thing such that by giving it up a mendicant gives up ignorance and gives rise to knowledge.\u201d \u201cBut how does a mendicant know and see so as to give up ignorance and give rise to knowledge?\u201d \u201cWhen a mendicant knows and sees the eye, sights, eye consciousness, and eye contact as impermanent, ignorance is given up and knowledge arises. And also knowing and seeing the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact as impermanent, ignorance is given up and knowledge arises. \u2026 Knowing and seeing the mind, ideas, mind consciousness, and mind contact as impermanent, ignorance is given up and knowledge arises. And also knowing and seeing the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact as impermanent, ignorance is given up and knowledge arises. That\u2019s how a mendicant knows and sees so as to give up ignorance and give rise to knowledge.\u201d","title":"Giving Up Ignorance (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":196}