7.
The Discourse on Very Far
47.
"There are, monks, these four things very far apart.
What are the four?
The sky, monks, and the earth;
this is the first very far apart.
The near shore, monks, of the ocean and the far shore;
this is the second very far apart.
From where, monks, the sun rises and where it sets;
this is the third very far apart.
The principle of the good, monks, and the principle of the bad;
this is the fourth very far apart.
These, monks, are the four things very far apart."
The far shore of the ocean, that they say is far;
From where the sun rises,
The light-bringer, and where it sets;
Farther than that, indeed, they say,
Is the principle of the good and the principle of the bad.
However long it may last, it remains just so;
But quickly indeed the meeting of the bad disappears,
Therefore the principle of the good is far from the unvirtuous." The seventh.