Connected Discourses 45.27

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1. Linked Discourses 45.27
2. 3. The Wrong Way
3. Pots
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. “A pot without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.
6. In the same way, a mind without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.
7. And what’s the stand for the mind?
8. It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is:
9. right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.
10. This is the stand for the mind.
11. A pot without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.
12. In the same way, a mind without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.”