The Buddha teaches on the internal and external sense bases regarding giving up wrong view, analyzing the eye, sights, consciousness, contact, and feeling for insight and release.

SN 35.165 Giving Up Wrong View

Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

“kathaṁ nu kho, bhante, jānato kathaṁ passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyatī”ti?

“Cakkhuṁ kho, bhikkhu, aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati. Rūpe aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati. Cakkhuviññāṇaṁ aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati. Cakkhusamphassaṁ aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati …pe…

yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ adukkhamasukhaṁ tampi aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati.

Evaṁ kho, bhikkhu, jānato evaṁ passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyatī”ti.

Dasamaṁ.

Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).

Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami …pe…

Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha …

ekamantaṁ nisinno so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

and said to him:

“kathaṁ nu kho, bhante, jānato kathaṁ passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyatī”ti?

“Sir, how does one know and see so that wrong view is given up?”

“Cakkhuṁ kho, bhikkhu, aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati.

“Mendicant, knowing and seeing the eye, sights, eye consciousness, and eye contact as impermanent, wrong view is given up. …

Rūpe aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati.

Cakkhuviññāṇaṁ aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati.

Cakkhusamphassaṁ aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati …pe…

yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ adukkhamasukhaṁ tampi aniccato jānato passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyati.

And also knowing and seeing the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact as impermanent, wrong view is given up.

Evaṁ kho, bhikkhu, jānato evaṁ passato micchādiṭṭhi pahīyatī”ti.

This is how to know and see so that wrong view is given up.”

Dasamaṁ.

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