So It Was Said 12

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1. So It Was Said 12
2. The Book of the Ones
3. Chapter Two
4. Complete Understanding of Anger
5. This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
6. “Mendicants, without directly knowing and completely understanding anger, without dispassion for it and giving it up, you can’t end suffering.
7. By directly knowing and completely understanding anger, having dispassion for it and giving it up, you can end suffering.
8. The Buddha spoke this matter.
9. On this it is said:
10. “When overcome by anger
11. beings go to a bad place.
12. Having rightly understood that anger,
13. the discerning give it up.
14. Once they’ve given it up,
15. they never return to this world.”
16. This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.