5.
The Discourse on Contempt
5.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, abandon one thing; I am your surety for non-returning. What one thing? Monks, abandon contempt as one thing; I am your surety for non-returning." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"By which contempt beings, being contemptuous, go to an unfortunate realm;
That contempt, having perfectly understood, those with insight abandon;
Having abandoned, they never come again to this world."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The fifth.