Robert: The Buddha teaches by means of gratification and disapointment ( carrot and stick)
Netti-pakarana (the Guide)
PART 3. COUNTER-DEMONSTRATIVE SUBSECTION
16 Modes of Conveying: Separate Treatment
1. The Ninefold Thread in the Mode of Conveying a Teaching
- Herein, what is the Mode of Conveying a Teaching ? The Mode of Conveying a Teaching is [summarized] in the following verse:
‘Gratification, Disappointment,
Escape, Fruit, Means, the Lord Buddha’s
Commana to Devotees: this Mode
Is the Conveying of a Teaching’ (§5).
[The act-of -teaching and what-is-taught]
- What does it teach ? [It teaches as follows:]
[In the aspects of] gratification, disappointment, escape, fruit, means, and injunction,1 <Bhikkhus, I shall teach you a True Idea that is good in the
beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, with its own meaning and its own phrasing; I shall display a Divine Life that is entirely perfect and pure> (M. i, 280).
- Herein, what is the gratification ?
< When a mortal desires , if his desire is fulfilled,
He is sure to be happy by getting what he wants >
This is the gratification. (Pe 45; Sn. 766).
- Herein, what is the disappointment ?
[6]< Desire-born and willful, if his desires elude him ,
He becomes as deformed as if pierced by a barb> (Sn. 767).
This is the disappointment.