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The Discourse on the Severe
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Thus have I heard.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"Severe, monks, is material gain, honour and fame, painful, harsh, forming an impediment to the achievement of the unsurpassed freedom from bondage. Therefore, monks, you should train thus - 'We will abandon arisen material gain, honour and fame, and arisen material gain, honour and fame will not remain obsessing our mind.' Thus indeed, monks, should you train." The first.