8.
The Discourse on Being Established in What is Enticing
70.
At Sāvatthī.
Then a certain monk... etc.
Seated to one side, that monk said this to the Blessed One -
"It would be good, venerable sir, if the Blessed One would expound to me the Teaching in brief, so that having heard the Teaching from the Blessed One, etc.
I might dwell."
"Whatever, monk, is established in enticement;
therein your desire is to be abandoned."
"Understood, Blessed One;
understood, Fortunate One."
"In what way, then, monk, do you understand in detail the meaning of what was spoken by me in brief?" "Matter, venerable sir, is established in enticement; therein my desire is to be abandoned. Feeling... perception... activities... consciousness is established in enticement; therein my desire is to be abandoned. I, venerable sir, understand in detail the meaning of what the Blessed One has spoken in brief thus."
"Good, good, monk! Good indeed, monk, you understand in detail the meaning of what was spoken by me in brief. Matter, monk, is established in enticement; therein your desire is to be abandoned. Feeling... perception... activities... consciousness is established in enticement; therein your desire is to be abandoned. This, monk, is how the meaning of what was spoken by me in brief should be understood in detail," etc. And that monk became one of the Worthy Ones. The eighth.