iti92:0.1So It Was Said 92
iti92:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti92:0.3Chapter Five
iti92:0.4The Corner of the Cloak
iti92:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti92:2.1“Mendicants, suppose a mendicant were to hold the corner of my cloak and follow behind me step by step.
iti92:2.2Yet they covet sensual pleasures; they’re infatuated, full of ill will and malicious intent. They are unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties.
iti92:2.3Then they are far from me, and I from them.
iti92:2.4Why is that?
iti92:2.5Because that mendicant does not see the teaching.
iti92:2.6Not seeing the teaching, they do not see me.
iti92:3.1Suppose a mendicant were to live a hundred leagues away.
iti92:3.2Yet they do not covet sensual pleasures; they’re not infatuated, or full of ill will and malicious intent. They have established mindfulness, situational awareness and immersion, with unified mind and restrained faculties.
iti92:3.3Then they are close to me, and I to them.
iti92:3.4Why is that?
iti92:3.5Because that mendicant sees the teaching.
iti92:3.6Seeing the teaching, they see me.”
iti92:3.7The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti92:3.8On this it is said:
iti92:4.1“One full of desire and distress
iti92:4.2may follow close behind,
iti92:4.3yet see how distant they are—
iti92:4.4the stirred from the still,
iti92:4.5the burning from the quenched,
iti92:4.6the greedy from the greedless.
iti92:5.1An astute person who has understood
iti92:5.2and directly known the teaching,
iti92:5.3grows calm, as unperturbed
iti92:5.4as a lake free of wind.
iti92:6.1See how close they are—
iti92:6.2the still to the still,
iti92:6.3the quenched to the quenched,
iti92:6.4the greedless to the greedless.”
iti92:7.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.