The Related Suttas Collection 1.23

3. A Sword

A Tangle

“Tangled within, tangled without: these people are tangled in tangles. I ask you this, Gotama: who can untangle this tangle?”

“A wise person grounded in ethics, developing the mind and wisdom, a keen and alert bhikkhu—they can untangle this tangle.

Those in whom greed, hate, and ignorance have faded away; the perfected ones with defilements ended—they have untangled the tangle.

And where name and form cease with nothing left over; as well as impingement and perception of form: it’s there that the tangle is cut.”