Āsīvisa Sutta/Vagga
1. Ä€sÄ«visa Sutta.- Taught at SÄvatthi. Man has to tend four snakes of fierce heat and fearful venom — the four primary elements (mahÄbhÅ«ta); be is constantly followed by five murderous foes — the five aggregates of attachment (upÄdÄnakkhandhÄ); he is pursued by a murderous housebreaker with uplifted sword — passionate desire (nandirÄga); while trying to escape them, he wanders into an empty village, where everything is empty — the sixfold personal sense sphere (ajjhattikÄyatana), and into it come village-plunderers — the sixfold external sense-spheres (bÄhirÄyatana.) Fleeing from there he comes to a broad stretch of water beset with danger on the hither side; the further side is secure from fear, but there is no boat and no bridge — the fivefold flood (ogha), the hither shore being personality-view (sakkÄya-diá¹á¹hi) and the further shore nibbÄna. S.iv.172-b.
2. Āsīvisa Sutta.- There are four kinds of snakes in the world: the venomous but not fierce, the fierce but not venomous, the one that is both and the one that is neither. Similarly there are four kinds of persons: the one quick to get angry but with short-lived anger, the one slow to get angry but with lasting anger, etc. (A.ii.110-11)
Ä€sÄ«visa Vagga.- The nineteenth chapter of the SalÄyatana Samyutta of the Samyutta NikÄya. J.iv.172-204.
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