Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (1937p) by Bhikkhu Bodhi (Tr)

Author:Bhikkhu Bodhi (Tr) [Bodhi, Bhikkhu]
Language: eng
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Tags: Buddhism, Theravada, Tipitaka, Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Anguttara Nikaya
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

in a bad destination, in the lower world, in hell!’ For what rea-

son? An enemy does not delight in an enemy’s going to a good

destination. When an angry person is overcome and oppressed

by anger, he engages in misconduct by body, speech, and mind.

As a consequence, still overcome by anger, with the breakup

of the body, after death, he is reborn in the plane of misery, in

a bad destination, in the lower world, in hell. This is the sev-

enth thing gratifying and advantageous to an enemy that comes

upon an angry man or woman.

“These are the seven things gratifying and advantageous to

an enemy that come upon an angry man or woman.”

The angry person is ugly;

he also sleeps badly;

having gained some benefit,

he takes it to be harmful.1561

1068 The Book of the Sevens

IV 97

The angry person,

overcome by anger,

having slain by body and speech,1562

incurs the loss of wealth.

Maddened by anger

he acquires a bad reputation.

His relatives, friends, and loved ones

avoid the angry person.

Anger is a cause of harm;

anger stirs up mental turmoil.

People do not recognize the peril

that has arisen from within.

The angry person doesn’t know the good;

the angry person doesn’t see the Dhamma.

There is just blindness and dense gloom

when anger overcomes a person. [97]

When an angry person causes damage,

whether easily or with difficulty,

later, when the anger has vanished,

he is tormented as if burnt by fire.

He shows recalcitrance

as a fire does a smoky crest.

When his anger spreads outward,

people become angry on his account.1563

He has no shame or fear of wrong,

his speech is not respectful;

one overcome by anger

has no island [of safety] at all.

I will tell you about the deeds

that produce torment.

Listen to them as they are,1564

remote from those that are righteous:

IV 98

Sutta 64 1069

An angry person slays his father;

an angry person slays his own mother;

an angry person slays a brahmin;1565

an angry person slays a worldling.

The angry worldling slays his mother,

the good woman who gave him life,

the one by whom he was nurtured

and who showed him this world.

Those beings, like oneself,

each hold their self most dear;

yet those who are angry kill themselves in various ways1566

when they are distraught about diverse matters.

Some kill themselves with a sword;

some who are distraught swallow poison;

some hang themselves with a rope;

some [jump] into a mountain gorge. [98]

Deeds that involve destroying growth1567

and deeds that cause their own death:

when doing such deeds they do not know

that defeat is born of anger.

Thus death’s snare hidden in the heart

has taken the form of anger.

One should cut it off by self-control,

wisdom, energy, and [right] view.

The wise person should eradicate

this one unwholesome [quality].1568

In such a way one should train in the Dhamma:

do not yield to recalcitrance.

Free from anger, their misery gone,

free from delusion,1569 no longer avid,

tamed, having abandoned anger,

the taintless ones attain nibbāna.1570 [99]

1070 The Book of the Sevens

IV 99

II. the great ChaPter

65 (1) Moral Shame 1571

“Bhikkhus, (1) when there is no sense of moral shame and moral

dread, for one deficient in a sense of moral shame and moral

dread, (2) restraint of the sense faculties lacks its proximate

cause. When there is no restraint of the sense faculties, for one

deficient in restraint of the sense faculties, (3) virtuous behavior

lacks its proximate cause.

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