Recluses (I)

1. I heard thus. At one time the Blessed One lived in the monastery offered by Anàthapiõóika in Jeta's grove in Sàvatthi.

2. Then the monks approached the Blessed One, worshipped and sat on a side and the Blessed One said:

3. ßMonks, these five are the holding masses, such as the holding mass of matter, feelings, perceptions, intentions, and the holding mass of consciousness.

4. ßMonks, the recluses and brahmins who do not know as it really is, the satisfaction, danger, and the escape from these five holding masses do not realize by themselves and abide.

5. ßMonks, the recluses and brahmins who know as it really is, the satisfaction, danger, and the escape from these five holding masses realize by themselves and abide.