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The Chapter on the Good Teaching
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Commentary on the First Fixed Course of the Right Path Discourse
151. In the first of the fourth, "incapable of entering upon the fixed course, the right path, in wholesome mental states" means incapable of entering upon the fixed course of the path that has become the right path in wholesome mental states - an unsuitable vessel. In the passage beginning with "he disparages the talk" and so on, one saying "What kind of talk is this?" disparages the talk. One saying "What indeed does this one speak about, what does this one know?" disparages the speaker. One saying "What do we know? Whence have we the power to hear this?" disparages himself. The bright side should be understood by the reverse.
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Commentary on the Second Fixed Course of the Right Path Discourse
152. In the second, "conceited about what is not known as if it were known" means one who is proud thus: "This has been cognised by me" regarding what has not been cognised.
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Commentary on the Third Fixed Course of the Right Path Discourse
153. In the third, "one who depreciates another's worth hears the Teaching" means having become one who depreciates another's worth, he hears the Teaching with a mind that smears over virtues. "With a censuring mind" means with a mind intent on refutation and finding fault. "Seeking faults" means seeking flaws in virtues, gaps in virtues.
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Commentary on the First Discourse on the Decay of the Good Teaching
154. In the fourth, "do not listen to the Teaching attentively" means they do not listen having inclined their ears and having been well-disposed. "Do not learn thoroughly" means even when practising the Teaching as heard, they do not practise it attentively. The fifth is clear in itself.
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Commentary on the Third Discourse on the Decay of the Good Teaching
156. In the sixth, "without refuge" means without support. For teachers are indeed the refuge of the discourse; because of their absence, it becomes without refuge. The remainder here is just the method already stated above.
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Commentary on the Discourse on Bad Talk
157. In the seventh, "compared with person" means having placed this or that person alongside, having made a witness - this is the meaning. "Being spoken" means being talked about. The remainder here and the eighth are of manifest meaning.
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Commentary on the Discourse to Udāyī
159. In the ninth, "I will speak a progressive discourse" means having established the thought "I will speak a discourse progressive in teaching, such as morality after giving, heaven after morality, or whatever discourse passage or verse line has been laid down, I will speak a discourse suitable to each of those" - thus the Teaching should be taught to others. "Showing the method" means showing the respective reason for each respective meaning. For "reason" is what is said here by "method." "Dependent on compassion" means having come to compassion, thinking "I will free beings who have reached great confinement from that confinement." "Not with material gain within" means not rooted in material gain, not hoping for the gain of the four requisites for oneself - this is the meaning. "Without wounding oneself and others" means without wounding oneself and others by the destruction of virtues by way of self-extolling and disparaging others and so on.
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Commentary on the Discourse on What is Difficult to Dispel
160. In the tenth, "hard to dispel" means whatever occasions for accomplishing functions such as laughter and so on have arisen, when these have not yet reached their culmination, they are right there difficult to remove, difficult to suppress. "Inspiration" is called the desire to speak. These five are hard to dispel, not easy to dispel. But by method, by reason, through suitable reviewing, instruction, and so on, it is possible to dispel them.
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