Connected Discourses 17.10

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1. Linked Discourses 17.10
2. Chapter One
3. With Verses
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal …
6. Take a case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
7. Take another case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by lack of honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
8. And take another case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by both honor and lack of honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
9. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”
10. That is what the Buddha said.
11. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
12. “Whether they’re honored
13. or not honored, or both,
14. their immersion doesn’t waver
15. as they live diligently.
16. They persistently meditate
17. with subtle view and discernment.
18. Rejoicing in the ending of grasping,
19. they’re said to be a true person.”