Numbered Discourses 6
2. Warm-hearted
15. Regret
There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants: “As a mendicant makes their bed, so they must lie in it, and die tormented by regrets. And how do they die tormented by regrets?
Take a mendicant who relishes work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They love these things and like to relish them. A mendicant who makes their bed like this must lie in it, and die tormented by regrets. This is called a mendicant who enjoys identity, who hasn’t given up identity to rightly make an end of suffering.
As a mendicant makes their bed, so they must lie in it, and die free of regrets. And how do they die free of regrets?
Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them. A mendicant who makes their bed like this must lie in it, and die free of regrets. This is called a mendicant who enjoys extinguishment, who has given up identity to rightly make an end of suffering.
A creature who likes to proliferate,
enjoying proliferation,
fails to reach extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary.But one who gives up proliferation,
enjoying the state of non-proliferation,
reaches extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary.”