This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a monk lives in stress in the present life — troubled, distressed, & feverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected. Which two? A lack of guarding of the doors of the sense faculties, and knowing no moderation in food. Endowed with these two things, a monk lives in stress in the present life — troubled, distressed, & feverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected."

Eye & ear & nose,
tongue & body & mind:
when a monk leaves these doors unguarded
	— knowing no moderation in food,
	not restraining his senses — 
he experiences stress:
	stress in body, stress
	in mind.
Burning in body
burning in mind,
	whether by day or by night,
	he lives
	in suffering & stress.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life — untroubled, undistressed, & unfeverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected. Which two? A guarding of the doors of the sense faculties, and knowing moderation in food. Endowed with these two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life — untroubled, undistressed, & unfeverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected."

Eye & ear & nose,
tongue & body & mind:
when a monk has these doors well guarded
— knowing moderation in food,
	restraining his senses — 
he experiences ease:
	ease in body, ease
	in mind.
Not burning in body,
not burning in mind,
	whether by day or by night,
	he lives
	in ease.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There are these two things that cause remorse. Which two? There is the case of the person who has not done what is admirable, has not done what is skillful, has not given protection to those in fear, and instead has done what is evil, savage, & cruel. Thinking, 'I have not done what is admirable,' he feels remorse. Thinking, 'I have done what is evil,' he feels remorse. These are the two things that cause remorse."

Having engaged
	in bodily misconduct,
	verbal misconduct,
	misconduct of mind,
	or whatever else is flawed,
not having done what is skillful,
having done much that is not,
at the break-up of the body,
the undiscerning one reappears in
		hell.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There are these two things that cause no remorse. Which two? There is the case of the person who has done what is admirable, has done what is skillful, has given protection to those in fear, and has done nothing that is evil, savage, or cruel. Thinking, 'I have done what is admirable,' he feels no remorse. Thinking, 'I have not done what is evil,' he feels no remorse. These are the two things that cause no remorse."

Having abandoned
	bodily misconduct,
	verbal misconduct,
	misconduct of mind,
	& whatever else is flawed,
not having done what's not skillful,
having done much that is,
at the break-up of the body,
the discerning one reappears
		in heaven.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a person — as if carried off — is thus placed in hell. Which two? Evil habits & evil views. Endowed with these two things, a person — as if carried off — is thus placed in hell."

	Evil habits &
	evil views:
a person, undiscerning,
endowed with these two things,
at the break-up of the body
	reappears in hell.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a person — as if carried off — is thus placed in heaven. Which two? Auspicious habits & auspicious views. Endowed with these two things, a person — as if carried off — is thus placed in heaven."

	Auspicious habits &
	auspicious views:
a person, discerning,
endowed with these two things,
at the break-up of the body
	reappears in heaven.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "A person without ardor, without concern [for the results of doing evil], is incapable of self-awakening, incapable of Unbinding, incapable of attaining the unsurpassed safety from bondage. A person ardent & concerned is capable of self-awakening, capable of Unbinding, capable of attaining the unsurpassed safety from bondage."

		With no ardor, no
		concern,
	lazy, with low persistence,
	full of sloth & drowsiness,
	shameless, without respect:
		he's incapable,
		a monk like this,
	of touching superlative
		self-awakening.

But whoever is mindful, masterful,
		absorbed in jhana,
	ardent, concerned, & heedful,
	cutting the fetter of birth & aging,
	touches right here
		a self-awakening un-
		surpassed.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, this holy life is lived, not for the sake of deceiving people, not for the sake of inveigling people, not for the sake of the rewards of gain, offerings, & tribute, nor with the thought, 'Thus may people know me.' This holy life is lived for the sake of restraint & abandoning."

For the sake of restraint,
for the sake of abandoning,
he, the Blessed One, taught
a holy life not handed down,
	coming to shore
		in Unbinding.

This path is pursued
	by those great in purpose,
	great seers.
Those who follow it,
as taught by the One Awakened,
heeding the Teacher's message,
	will put an end
		to suffering & stress.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, this holy life is lived, not for the sake of deceiving people, not for the sake of inveigling people, not for the sake of the rewards of gain, offerings, & tribute, nor with the thought, 'Thus may people know me.' This holy life is lived for the sake of direct knowledge1 & full comprehension."

For the sake of direct knowledge & full
	comprehension,
he, the Blessed One, taught
a holy life not handed down,
	coming to shore
		in Unbinding.
		Unbinding.

This path is pursued
	by those great in purpose,
	great seers.
Those who follow it,
as taught by the One Awakened,
heeding the Teacher's message,
	will put an end
	to suffering & stress.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life and is appropriately aroused for the ending of the fermentations. Which two? A sense of urgency & awe toward things that should inspire urgency & awe1 and, feeling urgency & awe, appropriate exertion. Endowed with two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life and is appropriately aroused for the ending of the fermentations."

	Feeling urgency, awe,
toward what should inspire it,
	the wise,
	masterful,
	ardent monk
should investigate
with discernment.
One who lives thus ardently,
	not restlessly, at peace,
committed to awareness-tranquillity
would attain the ending
		of suffering & stress.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Two trains of thought often occur to the Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened: the thought of safety & that of seclusion.

"The Tathagata enjoys non-ill will, delights in non-ill will. To him — enjoying non-ill will, delighting in non-ill will — this thought often occurs: 'By this activity I harm no one at all, whether weak or firm.'

"The Tathagata enjoys seclusion, delights in seclusion. To him — enjoying seclusion, delighting in seclusion — this thought often occurs: 'Whatever is unskillful is abandoned.'

"Thus, monks, you too should live enjoying non-ill will, delighting in non-ill will. To you — enjoying non-ill will, delighting in non-ill will — this thought will often occur: 'By this activity we harm no one at all, whether weak or firm.'

"You too should live enjoying seclusion, delighting in seclusion. To you — enjoying seclusion, delighting in seclusion — this thought will often occur: 'What is unskillful? What is not yet abandoned? What are we abandoning?'"

To the Tathagata,
	awakened,
who endured what is hard to endure,
two thoughts occur:
	safety		the first thought mentioned;
	seclusion	the second declared.

The dispeller of darkness, free
of fermentation,
the great seer
who has		gone beyond,
		reached attainment,
	gained mastery,
crossed over the poisons;
	who's released in the ending of craving:

		that sage

bears his last body,
has shaken off Mara, I tell you,
has gone	beyond aging.
As one standing on a rocky crag
would see the people all around below,
	so the wise,
with the all-around eye,
having scaled the tower
	made of Dhamma,
having crossed over sorrow,
gaze on those overwhelmed with sorrow,
	conquered by aging & death.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "The Tathagata — worthy & rightly self-awakened — has two Dhamma discourses given in sequence. Which two? 'See evil as evil.' This is the first Dhamma discourse. 'Having seen evil as evil, become disenchanted there, dispassionate there, released.' This is the second Dhamma discourse. These are the two Dhamma discourses that the Tathagata — worthy & rightly self-awakened — has given in sequence."

See the two statements,
		declared in sequence,
by the Tathagata,
awakened, sympathetic
to all beings. The first:
Be dispassionate there
	toward evil.
Then, with a mind dispassionate,
you will put an end
	to suffering & stress.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Ignorance1 precedes the arrival of unskillful qualities; lack of conscience & lack of concern2 follow after. Clear knowing precedes the arrival of skillful qualities; conscience & concern follow after."

Any bad destinations
in this world, in the next,
are rooted in ignorance — all — 
	accumulations
	of desire & greed.

And when a person of evil desires
lacks conscience & respect,
evil comes from that,
and by that he goes
to deprivation.

So cleansing away
ignorance, desire, & greed,
a monk giving rise to clear knowing
would abandon all bad destinations.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Those beings are truly deprived who are deprived of noble discernment. They live in stress in the present life — troubled, distressed, & feverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected.

"Those beings are not deprived who are not deprived of noble discernment. They live in ease in the present life — untroubled, undistressed, & not feverish — and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected.

Look at the world
	— including its heavenly beings:
deprived of discernment,
making an abode in name-&-form,
it conceives that 'This is the truth.'
The best discernment in the world
is what leads
	to penetration,
for it rightly discerns
the total ending of birth & becoming.

Human & heavenly beings
hold them dear:
those who are	self-awakened,
			mindful,
bearing their last bodies
with joyful discernment.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There are these two bright qualities that safeguard the world. Which two? Conscience & concern (for the results of unskillful actions). If these two bright qualities did not guard the world, there would be no recognition of 'mother' here, no recognition of 'mother's sister,' 'uncle's wife,' 'teacher's wife,' or 'wife of those who deserve respect.' The world would be immersed in promiscuity, like rams with goats, roosters with pigs, or dogs with jackals. But because these two bright qualities guard the world, there is recognition of 'mother,' 'mother's sister,' 'uncle's wife,' 'teacher's wife,' & 'wife of those who deserve respect.'"

Those in whom
concern & conscience
are not always found
	have strayed
		from the bright root,
	are headed
		to birth & death.
But those in whom
concern & conscience
are rightly established always,
who are mature in the holy life:
		they are calm,
	their further becoming
		ended.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that emancipation from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, emancipation from the born — become — made — fabricated is thus discerned."

The born, become, produced,
made, fabricated, impermanent,
composed of aging & death,
a nest of illnesses, perishing,
come from nourishment
and the guide [that is craving] — 
	is unfit for delight.

The escape from that
is
calm, permanent,
beyond inference,
unborn, unproduced,
the sorrowless, stainless state,
the cessation of stressful qualities,
the stilling of fabrications,
		bliss.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, there are these two forms of the Unbinding property. Which two? The Unbinding property with fuel remaining, & the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining.

And what is the Unbinding property with fuel remaining? There is the case where a monk is an arahant whose fermentations have ended, who has reached fulfillment, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis. His five sense faculties still remain and, owing to their being intact, he is cognizant of the pleasant & the unpleasant, and is sensitive to pleasure & pain. His ending of passion, aversion, & delusion is termed the Unbinding property with fuel remaining.1

And what is the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining? There is the case where a monk is an arahant whose fermentations have ended, who has reached fulfillment, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis. For him, all that is sensed, being unrelished, will grow cold right here. This is termed the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining."2

These two			proclaimed
				by the one with vision,
Unbinding properties	the one independent,
				the one who is Such:
one property, here in this life
with fuel remaining
	from the destruction of craving,
	the guide to becoming,
and that with no fuel remaining,
	after this life,
in which all becoming
	totally ceases.

Those who know
this state uncompounded,
their minds released
through the destruction of craving,
	the guide to becoming,
they, attaining the Teaching's core,
	delighting in ending,
have abandoned all becoming:
		they, the Such.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, live enjoying aloofness, delighting in aloofness, inwardly committed to awareness-tranquillity, not neglecting jhana, endowed with clear-seeing insight, and frequenting empty buildings. As you live enjoying aloofness, delighting in aloofness, inwardly committed to awareness-tranquillity, not neglecting jhana, endowed with clear-seeing insight, and frequenting empty buildings, then one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis right in the present life, or — if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance — non-return."

Those with calm minds — 
	masterful,
	mindful,
	absorbed in jhana — 
clearly see things rightly,
not intent on sensual pleasures.
Delighting in heedfulness,
	calm,
seeing danger in heedlessness, they
	— incapable of falling away — 
are right on the verge of Unbinding.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, live with the trainings [in heightened virtue, heightened mind, & heightened discernment] as your reward, with discernment uppermost, release the essence, & mindfulness the governing principle. As you live with the trainings as your reward, with discernment uppermost, release the essence, & mindfulness the governing principle, then one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis right in the present life, or — if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance — non-return."

Complete in the training,
not subject to falling away,
one with discernment
	uppermost,
seeing the stopping, the ending of birth:
	that sage
bears his last body,
has shaken off Mara, I tell you,
has gone beyond aging.
	So, always
delighting in jhana,
	centered,
	ardent,
seeing the stopping, the ending of birth,
conquering Mara, along with his host,
	monks,
be gone-beyond aging & death.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "A monk should be wakeful: mindful, alert, centered, sensitive, clear, & calm. And there he should, at the appropriate times, see clearly into skillful mental qualities. For a monk who is wakeful — mindful, alert, centered, sensitive, clear, & calm, seeing clearly, at the appropriate times, into skillful mental qualities — one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis right in the present life, or — if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance — non-return."

Those who are wakeful, listen!
Those who are sleeping, wake up!
Wakefulness is better than sleep.
For those who are wakeful,
	there's no danger, no fear.
Whoever is wakeful,
	mindful, alert,
	centered, sensitive,
	calm, & clear,
rightly exploring the Dhamma
at appropriate times,
will — at oneness — 
shatter the darkness.

So be devoted to wakefulness.
The ardent monk
— masterful, acquiring jhana,
cutting the fetter of birth & aging — 
touches right here
a self-awakening un-
	surpassed.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, these two are doomed to deprivation, to hell, for not abandoning their conduct. Which two? One who, not living the celibate life, pretends to be one who lives the celibate life; and one who groundlessly accuses one who lives the celibate life perfectly & purely of uncelibate behavior. These are the two who are doomed to deprivation, to hell, for not abandoning their conduct."

He goes to hell,
the one who asserts
what didn't take place,
as does the one
who, having done,
says, 'I didn't.'

Both — low-acting people — 
there become equal:
after death, in the world beyond.

An ochre robe tied 'round their necks,
many with evil qualities
— unrestrained, evil — 
rearise, because of their evil acts,
	in hell.

Better to eat an iron ball
— glowing, aflame — 
than that, unprincipled &
	unrestrained,
you should eat the alms of the country.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Overcome by two viewpoints, some human & divine beings adhere, other human & divine beings slip right past, while those with vision see.

"And how do some adhere? Human & divine beings enjoy becoming, delight in becoming, are satisfied with becoming. When the Dhamma is being taught for the sake of the cessation of becoming, their minds do not take to it, are not calmed by it, do not settle on it or become resolved on it. This is how some adhere.

"And how do some slip right past? Some, feeling horrified, humiliated, & disgusted with that very becoming, relish non-becoming: 'When this self, at the break-up of the body, after death, perishes & is destroyed, and does not exist after death, that is peaceful, that is exquisite, that is sufficiency!' This is how some slip right past.

"And how do those with vision see? There is the case where a monk sees what has come into being as come into being. Seeing what has come into being as come into being, he practices for disenchantment with what has come into being, dispassion toward what has come into being, cessation of what has come into being. This is how those with vision see."1

Those, having seen
	what's come to be
		as what's come to be,
	and what's gone beyond
		what's come to be,
	are released in line
		with what's come to be,
	through the exhaustion of craving
		for becoming.

If they've comprehended
	what's come to be,
and are free from the craving
	for becoming & non-,
		with the non-becoming
		of what's come to be,
			monks come
			to no further becoming.