Connected Discourses 17.29

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1. Linked Discourses 17.29
2. Chapter Three
3. A Rope
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal …
6. They cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until they reach the marrow and keep pushing.
7. Suppose a strong man was to twist a tough horse-hair rope around your shin and tighten it.
8. It would cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until it reached the marrow and kept pushing.
9. In the same way, possessions, honor, and popularity cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until they reach the marrow and keep pushing.
10. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”