8.
The Discourse on Full Understanding of Conceit
8.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, without directly knowing and fully understanding conceit, 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 conceit, 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:
"This generation is possessed by conceit, bound by the knot of conceit, delighted in existence;
Not fully understanding conceit, they are ones who come to renewed existence.
"But those who, having abandoned conceit, are liberated in the complete elimination of conceit;
They, overcoming the knot of conceit, have escaped all suffering."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The eighth.