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Suppose a deft butcher or their apprentice was to kill a cow and carve it with a sharp meat cleaver.

I will teach you what fuels and what starves the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.

Trapped in a cave, thickly overspread, sunk in delusion they stay.

Three kinds of people are bound for a place of loss

My friend, what do you see, standing there at the peak?

My family, why do you urge me on to pleasures, as if you were my enemies?

Though in the world, have gone beyond.

Suppose there was a bowl of water that was mixed with dye such as red lac, turmeric, indigo, or rose madder.

Sensual pleasures aren’t happiness, Eraka!

Swamped by things that seem pleasant, you go to another womb.

Even if it were raining money…

Nāgita, who’s making that dreadful racket? You’d think it was fishermen hauling in a catch!

That has been known by a Realized One, but a Realized One is not subject to it.

Great king, these four things should not be looked down upon or disparaged because they are young.

These eight things don’t arise to be developed and cultivated except when a fully awakened Buddha has appeared.

As I was being swept away, he gave me a strong, simple ladder, made of the heartwood of Dhamma, and he said to me: “Do not fear.”

Master Gotama, how do you define a brahmin?

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