The Way of Truth

1: Pairs 2: Mindfulness 3: The Mind 4: Flowers 5: The Spiritually Immature 6: The Spiritually Mature 7: The (Supremely) Worthy 8: The Thousands 9: Evil 10: Punishment 11: Decay 12: Self 13: The World 14: The Enlightened One 15: Happiness 16: Affections 17: Anger 18: Stains 19: The Man of Principle 20: The Way 21: The Miscellaneous 22: The Woeful State 23: The Elephant 24: Craving 25: The Almsman 26: The Brāhmaṇa

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Chapter 22: The Woeful State

Verse 3

Global verse #308

Better to swallow a flaming, red hot ball of iron, than to be an immoral, uncontrolled man living on the almsfood of the land.

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