Existential Atlas

SN 1.23 — A Tangle

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“Tangled within, tangled without: these people are tangled in tangles. I ask you this, Gotama: who can untangle this tangle?” “A wise person grounded in ethics, developing the mind and wisdom, a keen and alert mendicant— they can untangle this tangle. Those in whom greed, hate, and ignorance have faded away; the perfected ones with defilements ended— they have untangled the tangle. And where name and form cease with no residue left behind; and impingement and perception of form: it’s here this tangle is cut.”

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