sn42.2:2.1 “Clearly, chief, I’m not getting through to you when I say:
sn42.2:2.2 ‘Enough, chief, let it be.
sn42.2:2.3 Don’t ask me that.’
sn42.2:2.4 Nevertheless, I will answer you.
sn42.2:2.5 When sentient beings are still not free of greed, and are still bound by greed,
sn42.2:2.6 a dancer in a stage or festival presents them with even more arousing things.
sn42.2:2.7 When sentient beings are still not free of hate, and are still bound by hate,
sn42.2:2.8 a dancer in a stage or festival presents them with even more hateful things.
sn42.2:2.9 When sentient beings are still not free of delusion, and are still bound by delusion,
sn42.2:2.10 a dancer in a stage or festival presents them with even more delusory things.
sn42.2:2.11 And so, being heedless and negligent themselves, they’ve encouraged others to be heedless and negligent. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the hell called ‘Laughter’.
sn42.2:2.12 But if you have such a view:
sn42.2:2.13 ‘Suppose a dancer entertains and amuses people on a stage or at a festival with mixed truth and lies. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of laughing gods.’ This is your wrong view.
sn42.2:2.14 An individual with wrong view is reborn in one of two places, I say:
sn42.2:2.15 hell or the animal realm.”