Iti 28Living in Suffering
Pāli / Sanskrit:Dukkhavihārasutta
Not guarding the doors of the sense faculties and knowing no moderation in food leads to suffering in this life and the next.
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– So It Was Said 28
The Book of the Twos Chapter One Living in Suffering
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“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 rebirth. 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 rebirth.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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