Iti 29

Itivuttaka: The Group of Twos

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life untroubled, undistressed, & unfeverish and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected. Which two? A guarding of the doors of the sense faculties, and knowing moderation in food. Endowed with these two things, a monk lives in ease in the present life untroubled, undistressed, & unfeverish and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected."

Eye & ear & nose, tongue & body & mind: when a monk has these doors well guarded knowing moderation in food, restraining his senses he experiences ease: ease in body, ease in mind.

Not burning in body, not burning in mind, whether by day or by night, he lives in ease.