[99] **"He discards, and he takes up, a dhamma":** "He discards": he discards for two reasons — he discards through another's dissuasion, or, failing to achieve, he discards.
How does he discard through another's dissuasion? Another dissuades him: "That teacher is not omniscient; the Dhamma is not well proclaimed (svākkhāto); the group is not practicing well (supaṭipanno); the view (diṭṭhi) is not auspicious; the practice (paṭipadā) is not well laid down; the path is not emancipating; there is no purity herein, nor purification, nor complete purity, nor freedom, nor deliverance, nor complete release; therein they are not purified, nor fully purified, nor completely purified; they are not freed, nor delivered, nor completely released; they are inferior, low, deficient, vile, sordid, trifling." Thus another dissuades him. Being thus dissuaded, he discards the teacher, he discards the exposition of the Dhamma, he discards the group, he discards the view, he discards the practice, he discards the path. Thus he discards through another's dissuasion.
[#1 Po., M.: diṭṭhīnivesā na hi svātivattā. 2 M., Yu.: samuggahītanti nivesanesu.]
How, failing to achieve, does he discard? Failing to achieve virtue (sīla), he discards virtue; failing to achieve a vow (vatta), he discards the vow; failing to achieve virtue-and-vow, he discards virtue-and-vow. Thus, failing to achieve, he discards.
**"And he takes up a dhamma":** he grasps a teacher, he grasps an exposition of the Dhamma, he grasps a group, he grasps a view, he grasps a practice, he grasps a path; he misapprehends it, he adheres to it. Hence, "he discards, and he takes up, a dhamma." Therefore the Blessed One said:
Entrenchments in views are not easily transcended,
nor is what has been grasped after judging among dhammas;
therefore, amid those entrenchments, a person
discards, and takes up, a dhamma.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.