Pali - Every few days - [B243]
Gair/Karunatillake - Chapter 12 Further Readings
Ex. 1 (Part 1 of 13)
This is it - the begininning of the very last exercise
in this excellent beginner's book!
How fitting that it's the beginning of the Buddha's
teaching.
DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANA SUTTA
DISCOURSE ON THE SETTING IN MOTION OF THE WHEEL OF THE
DHAMMA
Eva.m me suta.m. Eka.m samaya.m Bhagavaa
Baaraa.nasiya.m viharati Isipatane Migadaaye. Tatra
kho Bhagavaa pañcavaggiye bhikkhuu aamantesi
Thus have I heard. On one occasion, the Blessed one
was staying at Benares in the Deer Sanctuary at
Isipatana. There the Blessed One addressed the monks
of the group of five thus:
Dveme, bhikkhave, antaa pabbajitena na sevitabbaa.
Katame dve?
Monks, these two extremes are not to be practiced by
one who has gone forth. What are the two?
Yo caaya.m kaamesu kaamasukhallikaanuyogo hiino,
gammo, pothujjaniko, anariyo, anatthasa.mhito, yo
caaya.m attakilamathaanuyogo dukkho, anariyo,
anatthasa.mhito.
Just this, devotion to a life of luxury among sensual
pleasures, which is low, vulgar, common, ignoble, and
disadvantageous; and just this, devotion to
self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and
disadvantageous.