iti28:0.1So It Was Said 28
iti28:0.2The Book of the Twos
iti28:0.3Chapter One
iti28:0.4Living in Suffering
iti28:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti28:2.1“Mendicants, when a mendicant has two qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—
iti28:2.2and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.
iti28:2.3What two?
iti28:2.4Not guarding the sense doors and eating too much.
iti28:2.5When a mendicant possesses these two qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—
iti28:2.6and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.”
iti28:2.7The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti28:2.8On this it is said:
iti28:3.1“Eye, ear, nose,
iti28:3.2tongue, body, and likewise mind:
iti28:3.3a mendicant who leaves these
iti28:3.4sense doors unguarded—
iti28:4.1immoderate in eating,
iti28:4.2sense faculties unrestrained—
iti28:4.3reaps suffering
iti28:4.4both physical and mental.
iti28:5.1Burning in body,
iti28:5.2burning in mind,
iti28:5.3by day or by night
iti28:5.4such a person lives in suffering.”
iti28:6.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.