Linked Discourses 1.46

1. On Fire

Nymphs

“It’s resounding with a group of nymphs,

but haunted by a gang of goblins!

This grove is called ‘Deluding’.

How will I keep going?”

“That path is called ‘the direct way’,

and it’s headed for the place called ‘fearless’.

The chariot is called ‘unswerving’,

fitted with wheels of the teaching.

Conscience is its bench-back,

mindfulness its upholstery.

I say the teaching is the driver,

with right view running out in front.

Any woman or man

who has such a vehicle,

by means of this vehicle

has drawn near to extinguishment.”