only preachers. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the
bondage of Mara.

277. `All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes
passive in pain; this is the way to purity.

278. `All created things are grief and pain,' he who knows and sees
this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

279. `All forms are unreal,' he who knows and sees this becomes
passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

280. He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who,
though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are
weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.

281. Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never
commit any wrong with his body! Let a man but keep these three roads
of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the
wise.

282. Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge
is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus
place himself that knowledge may grow.

283. Cut down the whole forest (of lust), not a tree only! Danger
comes out of the forest (of lust). When you have cut down both the
forest (of lust) and its undergrowth, then, Bhikshus, you will be rid
of the forest and free!