{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/angu/an1-21.htm","path":"bud/angu/an1-21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/angu/an1-21.htm","text":"From Taming the Mind: Discourses of the Buddha (WH 51), edited by the Buddhist Publication Society, (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).\n\"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so intractable as the untamed mind. The untamed mind is indeed a thing untractable.\n\"Monks, I know not of any other thing so tractable as the tamed mind. The tamed mind is indeed a thing tractable.\n\"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great loss as the untamed mind. The untamed mind indeed conduces to great loss.\n\"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great profit as the tamed mind. The tamed mind indeed conduces to great profit.\n\"Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such woe as the mind that is untamed, uncontrolled, unguarded and unrestrained. Such a mind indeed brings great woe.\n\"Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such a mind indeed brings great bliss.\"","title":"AN I.21-26: Abhavita Sutta","type":"page"}