7.
The Discourse on Illness
157.
"There are these two illnesses, monks.
Which two?
Bodily illness and mental illness.
Beings are seen, monks, who claim health from bodily illness for even one year, who claim health for two years, who claim health for three years, who claim health for four years, who claim health for five years, who claim health for ten years, who claim health for twenty years, who claim health for thirty years, who claim health for forty years, who claim health for fifty years, who claim health for a hundred years, and even longer.
Those beings, monks, are very rare in the world who claim health from mental illness even for a moment, except for those who have eliminated the mental corruptions.
"There are these four illnesses of one gone forth, monks. Which four? Here, monks, a monk is greedy, with vexation, discontented with whatsoever requisites of robes, almsfood, lodging and medicine for the sick. He, being greedy, with vexation, discontented with whatsoever requisites of robes, almsfood, lodging and medicine for the sick, directs an evil wish for the attainment of non-contempt, for the attainment of material gain, honour and fame. He stands up, strives, and endeavours for the attainment of non-contempt, for the attainment of material gain, honour and fame. He approaches families with reckoning, he sits down with reckoning, he speaks the Teaching with reckoning, he holds back excrement and urine with reckoning. These, monks, are the four illnesses of one gone forth.
"Therefore, monks, you should train thus - 'We will not be greedy, with vexation, discontented with whatsoever requisites of robes, almsfood, lodging and medicine for the sick; we will not direct an evil wish for the attainment of non-contempt, for the attainment of material gain, honour and fame; we will not stand up, we will not strive, we will not endeavour for the attainment of non-contempt, for the attainment of material gain, honour and fame; we will be patient with cold and heat, with hunger and thirst, with the contact of gadflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures, with ill-spoken and ill-expressed ways of speech; we will be ones who by nature endure arisen bodily feelings that are painful, sharp, rough, severe, disagreeable, unpleasant, and life-threatening.' Thus indeed, monks, should you train." The seventh.