an2.1:2.1 “There are, mendicants, these two faults.
an2.1:2.2 What two?
an2.1:2.3 The fault apparent in this life, and the fault to do with lives to come.
an2.1:2.4 What is the fault apparent in this life?
an2.1:2.5 It’s when someone sees that kings have arrested a bandit, a criminal, and subjected them to various punishments—
an2.1:2.6 whipping, caning, and clubbing; cutting off hands or feet, or both; cutting off ears or nose, or both; the ‘porridge pot’, the ‘shell-shave’, the ‘Rāhu’s mouth’, the ‘garland of fire’, the ‘burning hand’, the ‘bulrush twist’, the ‘bark dress’, the ‘antelope’, the ‘meat hook’, the ‘coins’, the ‘caustic pickle’, the ‘twisting bar’, the ‘straw mat’; being splashed with hot oil, being fed to the hounds, being impaled alive, and being beheaded.
an2.2:2.1 The better of these two endeavors is the effort to let go of all attachments.
an2.2:2.2 So you should train like this:
an2.2:2.3 ‘We shall endeavor to let go of all attachments.’
an2.2:2.4 That’s how you should train.”
an2.6:2.1 When you keep seeing things that tighten the fetters as boring, you give up greed, hate, and delusion.
an2.6:2.2 When these are given up, you’re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
an2.6:2.3 You’re freed from suffering, I say.
an2.6:2.4 These are the two things.”

