2.6 Of Inducing Insight by Saying “Sorrow!” (KV2.6)

Controverted Point: That induction of insight by the word “sorrow!” is a factor of and included in the Path.

Theravādin: Then you must also affirm that all who utter that word are practising the Path, which is absurd.

Or if you do affirm this, notwithstanding, then you must also affirm that the average foolish person, in uttering that word, is practising the Path, and, again, that matricides, parricides, murderers of Arahants, those that shed blood of Buddhas, those that cause schism in the Order, in uttering the word “sorrow!” are practising the Path, which is absurd.

The Points of Controversy, an English translation of the Pali Abhidhamma Kathāvatthu. Translated by Shwe Zan Aung and C.A.F. Rhys Davids. First published by Pali Text Society, 1915.

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