![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: The Buddha describes one thing that deserves to be killed.")
As she was standing to one side, a devata recited this verse to the Blessed One:
Having killed what
do you sleep in ease?
Having killed what
do you not grieve?
Of the slaying
of what one thing
does Gotama approve?
[The Buddha:]
Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger — with its honeyed crest & poison root — for having killed it you do not grieve.
©1999 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 14 June 2010.
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