John Kelly’s Pāli Reading Group 2025/26 Session 24

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Thread for John Kelly’s Pāli Reading Group 2025/26 Session 24 (March 15th / 16th 2026).

Meeting ID: 829 5896 1475
Passcode: anicca

You will need to remain in the “waiting room” until host lets you in.

** Preparation for this class **

Continue completion of your own translations for the verses of the Aṭṭhakavagga. We will pick up from Snp 4.15 Attadaṇḍa (v.940).

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The sutta I cited in today’s course is SN 1.71, where the Buddha actually approved the killing of anger kodha, not sensual desire as I misremembered.

(Bodhi’s translation)

At Savatthi. Standing to one side, that devatā addressed the Blessed One in verse:

“Having slain what does one sleep soundly?
Having slain what does one not sorrow?
What is the one thing, O Gotama,
Whose killing you approve?”

The Blessed One:

“Having slain anger, one sleeps soundly;
Having slain anger, one does not sorrow;
The killing of anger, O devatā,
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing the noble ones praise,
For having slain that, one does not sorrow.

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