Iti 39Teaching
Pāli / Sanskrit:Desanāsutta
Two Dhamma sequences: see evil as evil, and become released from it.
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– So It Was Said 39
The Book of the Twos Chapter Two Teaching
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha has two approaches to teaching Dhamma. What two? ‘See evil as evil’— this is the first approach to teaching Dhamma. ‘Having seen evil as evil, be disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed from it’— this is the second approach to teaching Dhamma. The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha has these two approaches to teaching Dhamma.”
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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