Connected Discourses 1.23

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1. Linked Discourses 1.23
2. 3. A Sword
3. A Tangle
4. “Tangled within, tangled without:
5. these people are tangled in tangles.
6. I ask you this, Gotama:
7. who can untangle this tangle?”
8. “A wise person grounded in ethics,
9. developing the mind and wisdom,
10. a keen and alert mendicant—
11. they can untangle this tangle.
12. Those in whom greed, hate, and ignorance
13. have faded away;
14. the perfected ones with defilements ended—
15. they have untangled the tangle.
16. And where name and form
17. cease with nothing left over;
18. and impingement and perception of form:
19. it’s here that the tangle is cut.”