Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 750.4

750.4

爾時，世尊告諸比丘：「若比丘！諸惡不善法，比丘，一切皆以無明為根本，無明集、無明生、無明起。所以者何？無明者無知，於善、不善法不如實知，有罪、無罪，下法、上法，染污，不染污，分別、不分別，緣起、非緣起不如實知；不如實知故，起於邪見，起於邪見已，能起邪志、邪語、邪業、邪命、邪方便、邪念、邪定。

It was then that the Bhagavān addressed the monks, “Monks, if bad and unskillful things arise, they all have ignorance as their root. Ignorance collects them, ignorance gives rise to them, and ignorance produces them. Why is that? Ignorance is the lack of knowing. Things that are good and not good aren’t truly known. What’s blameworthy and blameless, lower and higher teachings, what’s stained and stainless, what’s discerned and not discerned, and what’s dependently arisen and not dependently arisen aren’t truly known. Not truly knowing them, a person produces wrong view. After wrong view is produced, it can produce wrong intent, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong method, wrong mindfulness, and wrong samādhi.