{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/iti/iti2.htm","path":"bud/iti/iti2.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/iti/iti2.htm","text":"\"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.\"\nHaving engaged in bodily misconduct,\nor verbal misconduct,\nor misconduct of mind,\nor whatever else counts as a fault,\nnot having done what is skillful,\nhaving done much that is not,\nat the break-up of the body,\nthe undiscerning one reappears\nin hell.\n\"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.\"\nHaving abandoned bodily misconduct,\nverbal misconduct,\nmisconduct of mind,\n& whatever else counts as a fault,\nnot having done what's not skillful,\nhaving done much that is,\nat the break-up of the body,\nthe discerning one reappears\nin heaven.\n\"A person without ardor, without concern, is incapable of self-awakening, incapable of Unbinding, incapable of attaining the unsurpassed rest from the yoke. A person ardent and concerned is capable of self-awakening, capable of Unbinding, capable of attaining the unsurpassed rest from the yoke.\"\nWithout ardor, without concern,\nlazy, with persistence weak,\nfull of sloth & drowsiness,\nshameless, without respect:\nThis sort of monk is incapable\nof touching the supreme self-awakening.\nBut whoever is mindful & wise,\nabsorbed in jhana,\nardent, concerned, & heedful,\ncutting the fetter of birth & aging,\ntouches right here & now\nthe self-awakening unsurpassed.\n\"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, homage, and tribute, nor with the thought, 'Thus may people know me.' This holy life is lived for the sake of restraint and abandoning.\"\nFor the sake of restraint & abandoning\nthe Blessed One taught\na holy life not handed down,\nleading to\n& plunging in\nUnbinding.\nThis path is pursued\nby those great in purpose,\ngreat seers.\nThose who follow it,\nas taught by the Awakened One,\nheeding the Teacher's message,\nwill make an end\nof suffering & stress.\n\"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, homage, and tribute, nor with the thought, \"Thus may people know me.\" This holy life is lived for the sake of direct knowledge and full comprehension.\"\nFor the sake of direct knowledge\n& full comprehension,\nthe Blessed One taught\na holy life not handed down,\nleading to\n& plunging in\nUnbinding.\nThis path is pursued\nby those great in purpose,\ngreat seers.\nThose who follow it,\nas taught by the Awakened One,\nheeding the Teacher's message,\nwill make an end\nof suffering & stress.\n\"The Tathagata, the Worthy one, the Rightly Self-awakened One 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 with it, dispassionate toward it, freed from it.' This is the second Dhamma discourse. These are the two Dhamma discourses that the Tathagata, the Worthy one, the Rightly Self-awakened One has given in sequence.\"\nSee the two statements, given in sequence,\nby the Tathagata, awakened,\nsympathetic to all beings.\nThe first: See evil.\nThen: Be dispassionate toward evil.\nWith a mind dispassionate toward evil\nyou will make an end of stress.\n\"Ignorance precedes the arrival of unskillful qualities; lack of conscience & lack of concern follow after. Clear knowing precedes the arrival of skillful qualities; conscience & concern follow after.\"\nWhatever bad destinations there are\nin this world, in the next,\nare rooted in ignorance -- all of them --\naccumulations\nof desire & greed.\nAnd as one of evil desires\nlacks conscience & is disrespectful,\nevil comes from that,\nand by that he goes\nto destitution.\nSo cleansing away\nignorance, desire, & greed,\na monk gives rise to clear knowing\n& abandons all bad destinations.\n\"There are these two bright qualities that safeguard the world. Which two? Conscience and concern [for the results of evil actions]. If these two bright qualities did not safeguard the world, there would be no discerning of \"mother,\" \"aunt,\" \"uncle's wife,\" \"teacher's wife,\" or \"wife of those deserving respect.\" The world would fall into promiscuity, like goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, dogs, and jackels. But because these two bright qualities do safeguard the world, there is the discerning of \"mother,\" \"aunt,\" \"uncle's wife,\" \"teacher's wife,\" and \"wife of those deserving respect.\"\nThose in whom conscience & concern\nare not always found\nhave deviated from the bright root,\nare headed to birth & death.\nBut those in whom conscience & concern\nare always rightly established\nand who are mature in the holy life,\ncalm:\nthey are done with further becoming.\n\"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.\"\nThe born, become, produced,\nmade, fabricated, impermanent,\ncomposed of aging & death,\na nest of illness, perishing,\ncome from nourishment\nand the guide [that is craving]\nis unfit for delight.\nThe escape from that is\ncalm, permanent,\nbeyond logical inference,\nunborn, unproduced,\nthe sorrowless, stainless state,\nthe cessation of stressful qualities,\nthe stilling of fabrications,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bliss.\n\"Monks, there are these two forms of the Unbinding property. Which two? The Unbinding property with fuel remaining, and the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining.\nAnd what is the Unbinding property with fuel remaining? There is the case where a monk is a Arahant whose effluents have ended, who has attained completion, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, destroyed the bonds 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 and the unpleasant, and is sensitive to pleasure and pain. That which is the passing away of passion, aversion, and delusion in him is termed the Unbinding property with fuel remaining.\nAnd what is the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining? There is the case where a monk is a Arahant whose effluents have ended, who has attained completion, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, destroyed the bonds of becoming, and is released through right gnosis. All that is sensed by him, being unrelished, will grow cold right here. This is termed the Unbinding property with no fuel remaining.\"\nThese two\nUnbinding properties\nproclaimed by the one with vision\nthe one independent,\nthe one who is Such:\none property, here in this life\nwith fuel remaining\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from the ending of craving,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the guide to becoming,\nand that with no fuel remaining,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 after this life,\nin which all becoming\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 completely ceases.\nThose who know\nthis unfabricated state,\ntheir minds released\nthrough the ending of craving,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the guide to becoming,\nthey, attaining the Teaching's core,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 delighting in the ending of craving,\nhave abandoned all becoming:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They, the Such.\n\"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 here & now, or -- if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance -- non-return.\"\nThose who are wakeful, listen!\nThose who are sleeping, wake up!\nWakefulness is better than sleep.\nFor those who are wakeful,\nthere's no danger, no fear.\nWhoever is wakeful,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mindful, alert,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 centered, sensitive,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 calm, & clear,\nrightly exploring the Dhamma\nat the appropriate times,\nwill -- unified -- \nshatter the darkness.\nSo be devoted to wakefulness.\nThe ardent monk\n-- wise, absorbed in jhana,\ncutting the fetter of birth & aging -- \ntouches right here\nan Awakening unsurpassed.\n\"Overcome by two viewpoints, some human and divine beings adhere, other human and divine beings slip right past, while those with vision see.\n\"And how do some adhere? Human and divine beings delight in becoming, enjoy 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.\n\"And how do some slip right past? Some, feeling horrified, humiliated, and disgusted with that very becoming, delight in non-becoming: 'When this self, at the break-up of the body, after death, perishes and is destroyed, and does not exist after death, that is peaceful, that is exquisite, that is sufficiency!' This is how some slip right past.\n\"And how do those with vision see? There is the case where a monk sees being as being. Seeing being as being, he practices for disenchantment with being, dispassion toward being, cessation of being. This is how those with vision see.\"\nOne who, having seen\nwhat has come to be\nas what has come to be,\nhas gone beyond being,\nand is released in line\nwith things as they are,\nthrough the exhaustion of craving for becoming.\nThe monks who have comprehended being --\nfree from the craving\nto go from becoming\nto becoming;\nwith the non-becoming\nof what has come to be --\ncome to no further becoming.","title":"Iti 2","type":"page"}