A series of questions and answers between Venerable Sāriputta and Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita that clarify subtle yet important aspects of the teachings. Topics covered include wisdom, consciousness, felt experience, perception, purified mind-consciousness, right view, existence, first jhāna, the five faculties, vital formations, and the release of the mind.

Which things should a virtuous bhikkhu carefully attend to? Venerable Sāriputta explains how a bhikkhu at each stage of awakening should carefully attend to the five aggregates that are subject to clinging.

Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita asks Venerable Sāriputta if the eye is the fetter of forms or if forms are the fetter of the eye. Venerable Sāriputta explains that it is the desire and attachment that arises in dependence on both that is the fetter.