Interest and Greed (2)

1. I heard thus. At one time the Blessed One lived in the monastery offered by Anàthapiõóika in Jeta's grove in Sàvatthi.

2. Then the monks approached the Blessed One, worshipped and sat on a side and the Blessed One said:

3. ßMonks, dispel whatever interest, greed, liking, craving, and the mind's latent tendency to settle in matter approaching through attachment, by that matter will be dispelled with its roots pulled out and made palm stumps that do not grow again.

4-5. ßMonks, dispel whatever interest, greed, liking, craving and the mind's latent tendency to settle in feelings, to settle in perceptions approaching through attachment, by that feelings and perceptions will be dispelled with their roots pulled out and made palm stumps that do not grow again.

6. ßMonks, dispel whatever interest, greed, liking, craving and the mind's latent tendency to settle in intentions approaching through attachment, by that intentions will be dispelled with their roots pulled out and made palm stumps that do not grow again.

7. ßMonks, dispel whatever interest, greed, liking, craving, and the mind's latent tendency to settle in consciousness approaching through attachment, by that consciousness will be dispelled with its roots pulled out and made palm stumps that do not grow again.