So It Was Said 28

The Book of the Twos

Chapter One

Living in Suffering

iti28:1 This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

iti28:2 “Mendicants, when a mendicant has two qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever— and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad outcome in the Hereafter. What two? Not guarding the sense doors and eating too much. When a mendicant possesses these two qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever— and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad outcome in the Hereafter.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

iti28:3 “Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and likewise mind: a mendicant who leaves these sense doors unguarded—

iti28:4 immoderate in eating, sense faculties unrestrained— reaps suffering both physical and mental.

iti28:5 Burning in body, burning in mind, by day or by night such a person lives in suffering.”

iti28:6 This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.