Saṃyutta Nikāya
2. Nidāna Vagga
12. Nidāna-Saṃyutta
1. Buddha Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of Causation Nidāna-Vagga
12. Connected Discourses on Causation
I. The Buddhas
Sutta 3
Paṭipadā Suttaṃ
The Two Ways
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Bhikkhus, I will teach you the wrong way and the right way.
Listen to that and attend closely, I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those bhikkhus replied.
The Blessed One said this:
"And what, bhikkhus, is the wrong way?
With ignorance as condition, volitional formations [come to be]; with volitional formations as condition, consciousness....
Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
This, bhikkhus, is called the wrong way. [5] "And what, bhikkhus, is the right way?
With the remainderless fading away and cessation of ignorance comes cessation of volitional formations; with the cessation of volitional formations, cessation of consciousness....
Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.
This, bhikkhus, is called the right way."
