A Teaching on the Middle Way Dhamma and Dependent Origination ~ Kaccanagotta Sutta - The Buddha

A reading for meditation of the Kaccānagottasutta taken from
Samyutta Nikaya (SN 12.15).  In this sutta, Venerable
Kaccānagotta asks the Buddha about right view, and the Buddha
answers that right view arises when one sees the origin and
cessation of the world. The main theme of the text is the
avoidance of the extremes "existence"  and "non-existence"
with respect to the world, and instead seeing the world in terms
of the Middle Way which is illustrated by the twelve links of
dependent origination. The one with right-view understands this.
This translation is an amalgam of Walshe, Bodhi, Thanissaro, and
Sujato.  A Sanskrit and Chinese (Saṃyuktāgama 301; also a
partial quotation in SĀ 262) parallel text is also extant.
Although there is considerable agreement across versions, the
Sanskrit and Chinese texts are more or less identical to each
other and both slightly different from the Pāli version. The text
is cited in Sanskrit in works by Nāgārjuna and his commentators.


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