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Four Wheels

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“Four are its wheels, and nine its doors; ^[1]

it’s stuffed full, bound with greed,

and born from a bog.

Great hero, how will I keep going?” ^[2]

“Having cut the strap and harness—

the wicked desire and greed—

and having plucked out craving, root and all:

that’s how you will keep going.”

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[1] These verses, with a brief setting, are also at SN 2.28:2.1.

The “four wheels” of a cart are compared to the body, but the application of the metaphor is not obvious. The commentary relates it to the four postures. Later Buddhist tantra speaks of four “wheels” (cakra) in the sense of dynamic centers of vital and spiritual energy—navel, heart, throat, crown. This is attested much later than the suttas, but this could be a precedent.

The “nine doors” are the nine apertures of the body (compare the eleven doors at MN 52:15.5).

[2] The phrase yātrā bhavissati is familiar from the mendicant’s reflection on eating only so that they “will keep going”. The problem here is that the body is bound up with suffering.