3. The Discourse on Full Understanding of Contempt
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This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, without directly knowing and fully understanding contempt, without making the mind dispassionate towards it, and without abandoning it, one is incapable of eliminating suffering. But, monks, by directly knowing and fully understanding contempt, by making the mind dispassionate towards it, and by abandoning it, one is capable of eliminating suffering." 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 third.