..续本文上一页l question you in return. Answer as you see fit. Now, what do you think: Suppose a householder or householder”s son has a house with a gabled roof, plastered inside & out, draft-free, with close-fitting door & windows shut against the wind. Inside he has a horse-hair couch spread with a long-fleeced coverlet, a white wool coverlet, an embroidered coverlet, a rug of kadali-deer hide, with a canopy above, & red cushions on either side. And there a lamp would be burning, and his four wives, with their many charms, would be attending to him. Would he sleep in ease, or not
Or how does this strike you
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"Yes, lord, he would sleep in ease. Of those in the world who sleep in ease, he would be one."
"But what do you think, young man. Might there arise in that householder or householder”s son any bodily fevers or fevers of mind born of passion so that — burned with those passion-born fevers — he would sleep miserably
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"Yes, lord."
"As for those passion-born fevers — burned with which the householder or householder”s son would sleep miserably — that passion has been abandoned by the Tathagata, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. Therefore he sleeps in ease.
"Now, what do you think, young man. Might there arise in that householder or householder”s son any bodily fevers or fevers of mind born of aversion so that — burned with those aversion-born fevers — he would sleep miserably
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"Yes, lord."
"As for those aversion-born fevers — burned with which the householder or householder”s son would sleep miserably — that aversion has been abandoned by the Tathagata, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. Therefore he sleeps in ease.
"Now, what do you think, young man. Might there arise in that householder or householder”s son any bodily fevers or fevers of mind born of delusion so that — burned with those delusion-born fevers — he would sleep miserably
"
"Yes, lord."
"As for those delusion-born fevers — burned with which the householder or householder”s son would sleep miserably — that delusion has been abandoned by the Tathagata, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. Therefore he sleeps in ease.
"Always, always,
he sleeps in ease:
the brahman totally unbound,
who doesn”t adhere
to sensual pleasures,
who”s without acquisitions
& cooled.
Having cut all ties
& subdued fear in the heart,
calmed,
he sleeps in ease,
having reached peace
of awareness."
— AN 3.34
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§ 5.6.
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Anupiya in the Mango Orchard. Now at that time, Ven. Bhaddiya Kaligodha, on going to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty dwelling, would repeatedly exclaim, "What bliss! What bliss!" A large number of monks heard Ven. Bhaddiya Kaligodha, on going to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty dwelling, repeatedly exclaim, "What bliss! What bliss!" and on hearing him, the thought occurred to them, "There”s no doubt but that Ven. Bhaddiya Kaligodha doesn”t enjoy leading the holy life, for when he was a householder he knew the bliss of kingship, so that now, on recollecting that, he is repeatedly exclaiming, ”What bliss! What bliss!”" They went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As they were sitting there, they told him: "Ven. Bhaddiya Kaligodha, lord, on going to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty dwelling, repeatedly exclaims, ”What bliss! What bliss!” There”s no doubt but that Ven. Bhad…
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