Dukanipāta 16

Numbered Discourses 2.180–229

The Chapter of Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Anger

180–184

180 “There are these two things. What two? Anger and acrimony … disdain and contempt … jealousy and stinginess … deceit and deviousness … lack of conscience and prudence. These are the two things.”

185–189

185 “There are these two things. What two? Freedom from anger and acrimony … freedom from disdain and contempt … freedom from jealousy and stinginess … freedom from deceit and deviousness … conscience and prudence. These are the two things.”

190–194

190 “Anyone who has two things lives in suffering. What two? Anger and acrimony … disdain and contempt … jealousy and stinginess … deceit and deviousness … lack of conscience and prudence. Anyone who has these two things lives in suffering.”

195–199

195 “Anyone who has these two things lives happily. What two? Freedom from anger and acrimony … freedom from disdain and contempt … freedom from jealousy and stinginess … freedom from deceit and deviousness … conscience and prudence. Anyone who has these two things lives happily.”

200–204

200 “These two things lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee. What two? Anger and acrimony … disdain and contempt … jealousy and stinginess … deceit and deviousness … lack of conscience and prudence. These two things lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.”

205–209

205 “These two things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee. What two? Freedom from anger and acrimony … freedom from disdain and contempt … freedom from jealousy and stinginess … freedom from deceit and deviousness … conscience and prudence. These two things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant trainee.”

210–214

210 “Anyone who has two things is placed in hell as if delivered there. What two? Anger and acrimony … disdain and contempt … jealousy and stinginess … deceit and deviousness … lack of conscience and prudence. Anyone who has these two things is placed in hell as if delivered there.”

215–219

215 “Anyone who has two things is placed in heaven as if delivered there. What two? Freedom from anger and acrimony … freedom from disdain and contempt … freedom from jealousy and stinginess … freedom from deceit and deviousness … conscience and prudence. Anyone who has these two things is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”

220–224

220 “When they have two things, some people, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. What two? Anger and acrimony … disdain and contempt … jealousy and stinginess … deceit and deviousness … lack of conscience and prudence. When they have two things, some people, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.”

225–229

225 “When they have two things, some people—when their body breaks up, after death—are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. What two? Freedom from anger and acrimony … freedom from disdain and contempt … freedom from jealousy and stinginess … freedom from deceit and deviousness … conscience and prudence. When they have these two things, some people—when their body breaks up, after death—are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.”