2.
The Discourse on Imagining
64.
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... etc.
I might dwell ardent and resolute."
"Imagining, monk, one is bound by Māra;
not imagining, one is released from the Evil One."
"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?" "Imagining matter, venerable sir, one is bound by Māra; not imagining, one is released from the Evil One. Feeling... perception... activities... Imagining consciousness, one is bound by Māra; not imagining, one is released from the Evil One. 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. Imagining matter, monk, one is bound by Māra; not imagining, one is released from the Evil One. Feeling... perception... activities... Imagining consciousness, one is bound by Māra; not imagining, one is released from the Evil One. 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 second.