Brahmajalasutta 2.26

Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) 2.26

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2.26

[The same, reading] ‘And he thinks: “I neither know the good, as it really is, nor the evil. Now there are recluses and Brahmans who are clever, subtle, experienced in controversy, hair-splitters, who,go about, methinks, breaking to pieces by their wisdom the speculations of others. Were I to pronounce this to be good, or that to be evil, these men might join issue with me, call upon me for my reasons, point out my errors. And on their doing so, I might be unable to explain. And that might cause me the pain of remorse; and the sense of remorse might become a hindrance to me.” Thus fearing and abhorring the joinder of issue, he will neither declare (&c., as in Section 24).
‘This is the third case.
‘And what is the fourth?

2.26.n1

Sampāyati. See the note at ‘Vinaya Texts,’ III, 317, and compare M. I, 85, 96, 472.

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Brahmajālasutta — Pāli