The venerable Sāriputta delivers a comprehensive exposition on “Right View,” detailing sixteen ways a noble disciple achieves clarity in the Dhamma. By understanding the wholesome and unwholesome, nutriments, the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, and the taints—including their arising and cessation—a disciple abandons underlying tendencies and realizes the end of suffering.

Detailing how frequent pondering becomes the inclination of the mind, the Buddha recounts his pre-awakening practice of categorizing thoughts. He explains the process of abandoning thoughts of sensual desire, ill will, and harm, and cultivating wholesome thoughts to attain the four jhānas and ultimate liberation.

When the Buddha inaugurates a new assembly hall for the Sakyans of Kapilavatthu, he asks the venerable Ānanda to teach the assembly. Ānanda outlines the comprehensive path of a disciple in training—detailing the perfection of virtue, sense restraint, moderation in eating, wakefulness, the seven good qualities, and the four jhānas—culminating in the breakthroughs of true knowledge.

While a first point of ignorance is not discerned, it can be discerned that ignorance has a supporting condition. The Buddha explains the nutriments for ignorance and the nutriments for true knowledge and liberation, along with how they are fulfilled.

The Buddha systematically deconstructs sensory experience into six sets of six. By demonstrating the constant arising and passing away of the sense bases, consciousness, contact, felt experience, and craving, he dismantles the illusion of self, revealing the path to liberation.

Ignorance is the forerunner in the arising of unwholesome qualities, and true knowledge is the forerunner in the arising of wholesome qualities.

When one learns that “nothing is worth holding on to,” they directly know and completely comprehend all things. By seeing the sense bases, their objects, and resulting feelings as not oneself, ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge arises.

The Buddha explains to the brahmin Jāṇussoṇi how he overcame fright and dread while practicing seclusion in remote lodgings in the forests and woodlands, leading to the three true knowledges and full awakening.

A series of questions and answers between the lay follower Visākha and bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā that clarify subtle yet important aspects of the teachings. Topics covered include personal existence, Noble Eightfold Path, intentional constructs, attainment of cessation of perception and what is felt, felt experience, underlying tendencies and various counterparts.

The Buddha teaches in detail how to develop mindfulness while breathing in and out through sixteen naturally unfolding steps, showing how their cultivation fulfills the four establishments of mindfulness, which in turn fulfill the seven factors of awakening, culminating in true knowledge and liberation.

The Buddha advises to 1.) dwell contemplating the unattractive nature of the body, 2.) establish mindfulness as the first priority while breathing in and out, and 3.) observe impermanence in all conditioned phenomena.

Ignorance is the failure to discern that the five aggregates are subject to arising and vanishing. True knowledge is when an instructed disciple of the Noble Ones truly discerns that these physical and mental phenomena are subject to arising and vanishing.

The Buddha teaches on how to know and see the impermanence of the six sense bases and the process leading up to the arising of feeling and perception for the abandoning of ignorance and the arising of true knowledge.

When one knows and sees the sense bases, consciousness, and whatever feeling arises with contact as condition as impermanent, true knowledge arises and ignorance is abandoned.