# Netti-pakarana (the Guide): The Ninefold Thread in the Mode of Conveying a Teaching

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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
> 
> 1. Herein, what is the Mode of Conveying a Teaching ? The Mode of Conveying a Teaching is [summarized] in the following verse:
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> ‘Gratification, Disappointment,
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> Escape, Fruit, Means, the Lord Buddha’s
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> Commana to Devotees: this Mode
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> Is the Conveying of a Teaching’ (§5).
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> [The act-of -teaching and what-is-taught]
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> 1. What does it teach ? [It teaches as follows:]
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> [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_
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> _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).
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> 1. Herein, what is the gratification ?
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> \< _When a mortal desires_ , _if his desire is fulfilled,_
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> _He is sure to be happy by getting what he wants_ \>
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> This is the gratification. (Pe 45; Sn. 766).
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> 1. Herein, what is the disappointment ?
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> [6]\< _Desire-born and willful_, _if his desires elude him_ ,
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> _He becomes as deformed as if pierced by a barb\> (Sn._ 767).
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> _This is the disappointment._

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If might be more readable if you copy it from here

`https://tipitaka.fandom.com/wiki/Netti-Part-III.Chapter-i.16_Modes-Separate#1._The_Ninefold_Thread_in_the_Mode_of_Conveying_a_Teaching`