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- Anguttara Nikaya I.21-26
- Abhavita Sutta
- Untamed
- Translated from the Pali by F.L. Woodward
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by arrangement with the Buddhist Publication Society
From Taming the Mind: Discourses
of the Buddha (WH 51), edited by the Buddhist Publication Society, (Kandy:
Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).
At Savatthi.
"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so intractable as the untamed mind.
The untamed mind is indeed a thing untractable.
"Monks, I know not of any other thing so tractable as the tamed mind. The tamed
mind is indeed a thing tractable.
"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great loss as the
untamed mind. The untamed mind indeed conduces to great loss.
"Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great profit as the
tamed mind. The tamed mind indeed conduces to great profit.
"Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such woe as the mind that
is untamed, uncontrolled, unguarded and unrestrained. Such a mind indeed brings great woe.
"Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind
that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such a mind indeed brings great
bliss."