Jaṇussoṇi Sutta

At Savatthī. Then the brahmin Jaṇussoṇi approached the Blessed One and exchanged greetings with him. When they had concluded their greetings and cordial talk, he sat down to one side and said to him:

“How is it, Master Gotama: does all exist?”

“All exists’: this, brahmin, is one extreme.”

“Then, Master Gotama, does all not exist?”

“All does not exist’: this, brahmin, is the second extreme. Without veering towards either of these extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma by the middle way: “With ignorance as condition, formations come to be; with formations as condition, consciousness comes to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. But with the remainderless fading away and cessation of ignorance comes cessation of formations; with the cessation of formations, the cessation of consciousness…. Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.’””

When this was said, the brahmin Jaṇussoṇi said to the Blessed One:

“Magnificent, Master Gotama! … From today let Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”

~Samyutta Nikaya 12.47