2.
The Chapter on Kesi
1.
Commentary on the Kesi Discourse
111. In the first of the second, "Kesī" is his name. "He who drives horses to be tamed" means a charioteer of horses to be trained. In the passage beginning with "he trains with smoothness," having made a befitting offering to it, having fed it excellent food, having given it sweet drink, having addressed it with gentle words, when training it, this is called training with smoothness; when training it with knee-binding, mouth-binding and so on, and with goad-piercing, whip-striking and harsh words, this is called training with harshness; doing both of those from time to time, this is called training with both smoothness and harshness.
2.
Commentary on the Speed Discourse
112. In the second, "rectitude" means the state of being upright. "Speed" means the swiftness of step. "Patience" means the patience of endurance. "Meekness" means the morality of the state of purity. With regard to the factors of a person's qualities, "speed" means the speed of knowledge. The remainder here is clear in meaning.
3.
Commentary on the Goad Discourse
113. In the third, "the shadow of the goad" means the shadow of the goad raised up for the purpose of piercing. "Is stirred" means is stirred by way of discernment thus: "Speed must be taken up by me." "Becomes anxious" means proceeds to anxiety. "Pierced to the hair" means pierced only to the extent of the goad's piercing at the hair pore. "Pierced to the hide" means pierced by the goad's piercing that cuts through the outer skin and hide. "Pierced to the bone" means pierced by a piercing that breaks the bone. "By the body" means by the mental body. "The supreme truth" means Nibbāna. "Realises" means sees. "With wisdom" means with path wisdom together with insight.
4.
Commentary on the Elephant Sutta
114. In the fourth, "having given attention" means having become desirous. "The sounds of kettledrums resounding" - here, "kettledrum" (tiṇava) means a small drum (ḍiṇḍima); "resounding sound" means the great sound of all mixed together. Among "gadflies" and so on, "gadflies" (ḍaṃsā) means tawny flies; "mosquitoes" means just mosquitoes. "He quickly goes" means having fulfilled morality, concentration, wisdom, liberation, and knowledge and vision of liberation, he quickly goes.
5.
Commentary on the Possibility Discourse
115. In the fifth, "states" means reasons. "Leads to harm" means it leads to what is unhelpful, to decline. And here, the first should be understood as evil action accompanied by suffering and vexation, of the type involving pitfalls, digging, fish-catching, housebreaking and so on; the second should be understood as the work of flower-removing and so on for laypeople of the same livelihood, and work such as lime-pounding, house-roofing, sweeping of unclean places and so on; the third should be understood as activities such as drinking liquor, applying perfumes and ointments, wearing garlands and ornaments and so on, as well as actions such as killing living beings and so on that proceed by way of gratification; the fourth should be understood as wholesome action associated with pleasure in such things as going at the time of going for the purpose of hearing the Teaching, having taken clean cloth coverings, garlands, perfumes and so on, going, paying homage at shrines, paying homage at the Bodhi tree, listening to sweet talks on the Teaching, undertaking the five precepts, and so on. "By manly strength" means in a person's strength of knowledge. In the remaining two as well, the same method applies.
6.
Commentary on the Heedfulness Discourse
116. In the sixth, "since" means "when." "Pertaining to the future life" - this is merely by way of the Teaching; but one who has eliminated the mental corruptions fears neither death pertaining to the future life nor death pertaining to the present life. That very one is intended here. Some, however, say "from the statement 'right view has been developed,' all noble ones are intended, beginning with the stream-enterer."
7.
Commentary on the Safeguarding Discourse
117. In the seventh, "by oneself" means in accordance with oneself, befitting, desiring one's own welfare - this is the meaning. "In enticing" means in those that are conditions for lust. "Mental states" means in intrinsic natures; the meaning is in desirable objects. Thus the method should be understood everywhere. "Does not find pleasure" means does not find pleasure through the influence of views. The same method applies to the remaining terms as well. "And he does not go even because of the words of ascetics" means even because of the words of ascetics who are proponents of other doctrines, having abandoned his own view, he does not go through the influence of their views - this is the meaning. Here too, only one who has eliminated the mental corruptions is intended.
8-10.
Commentary on the Triad of Discourses Beginning with the Stirring Discourse
118-120. In the eighth, "to be seen" means fit to be seen. "That arouse spiritual urgency" means productive of spiritual urgency. In the ninth, "fear of birth" means fear arising with reference to birth. The same method applies to the remaining terms as well. In the tenth, "fear of fire" means fear arising dependent on fire. The same method applies to the remaining terms as well.
The Kesi Chapter is the second.