| Guhatthaka Sutta The cave of the body |
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| Staying attached to the cave, covered heavily over, a person plunged into confusion is far from seclusion -- for sensual pleasures are not lightly let go. Those chained by desire, bound by becoming's allure, aren't freed by others, and find no easy release on their own. Intent, in front or behind, on hunger for sensual pleasures here or before -- greedy for sensual pleasures, busy, deluded, ungenerous, having entered the out-of-tune way, they -- impelled into pain -- lament: "What will we be when we pass on from here?" So a person should train right here and now. Whatever you know as out-of-tune in the world, don't, for its sake, act out-of-tune, for that life, say the prudent, is short. I see them, in the world, floundering around, people immersed in craving for states of becoming. Base people moan in the mouth of death, their craving, for states of becoming and not-, un-allayed. See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream -- and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming. Subdue desire for both sides, comprehending sensory contact, with no greed. Doing nothing for which he himself would reprove himself, the prudent person doesn't adhere to what's seen, to what's heard. Comprehending perception, not stuck on possessions, a sage would cross over the flood. Then, with arrow removed, living heedfully, he longs for neither this world nor the next. |
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