iti39:0.1So It Was Said 39
iti39:0.2The Book of the Twos
iti39:0.3Chapter Two
iti39:0.4Teaching
iti39:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti39:2.1“Mendicants, the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha has two approaches to teaching Dhamma.
iti39:2.2What two?
iti39:2.3‘See evil as evil’—
iti39:2.4this is the first approach to teaching Dhamma.
iti39:2.5‘Having seen evil as evil, be disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed from it’—
iti39:2.6this is the second approach to teaching Dhamma.
iti39:2.7The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha has these two approaches to teaching Dhamma.”
iti39:2.8The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti39:2.9On this it is said:
iti39:3.1“See the two approaches for
iti39:3.2explaining the Dhamma
iti39:3.3used by the Realized One, the Buddha,
iti39:3.4compassionate for all beings:
iti39:4.1see that that is evil,
iti39:4.2and be dispassionate toward it.
iti39:4.3Then, with a mind free of desire,
iti39:4.4you’ll make an end of suffering.”
iti39:5.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.