So you should dispel stinginess, overcoming that stain, and give a gift. The good deeds of sentient beings support them in the next world.”
Linked Discourses 1.44 5. On Fire One Root
“One the root, two the loops, three the stains, five the spreads, and the ocean, the twelfth whirlpool: such is the abyss crossed by the seer.”
Linked Discourses 1.45 5. On Fire Peerless
“Behold him of peerless name <j>who sees the subtle meaning, giver of wisdom, <j>unattached to the realm of sensuality: the all-knower, so very intelligent, the great seer treading the noble road.”
Linked Discourses 1.46 5. On Fire Nymphs
“It’s resounding with a group of nymphs, but haunted by a gang of goblins! This grove is called ‘Deluding’. How will I keep going?”
“That path is called ‘the direct way’, and it’s headed for the place called ‘fearless’. The chariot is called ‘unswerving’, fitted with wheels of the teaching.
Conscience is its bench-back, mindfulness its upholstery. I say the teaching is the driver, with right view running out in front.
Any woman or man who has such a vehicle, by means of this vehicle has drawn near to extinguishment.”
Linked Discourses 1.47 5. On Fire Planters