“When speech and mind are directed right, and you don’t do anything bad with the body while dwelling at home with plenty of food and drink. Faithful, gentle, charitable, and bountiful: one who stands on these four principles, who stands on the teaching <j>need not fear the next world.”
Linked Discourses 1.76 8. Slain Getting Old
“What ages, what does not age? What’s called a deviation? What’s a roadblock for skillful qualities? What is ending day and night? What’s the stain of celibacy? What’s the waterless bath?
How many holes are there in the world, where one’s wealth leaks out? We’ve come to ask the worthy sir: how are we to understand this?”
“The physical form of mortals gets old, but their name and clan don’t. Lust is called a deviation,
and greed is a roadblock for skillful qualities. Youth is ending day and night. Women are the stain of chastity, to which this generation clings. Fervor and chastity are the waterless bath.
There are six holes in the world, where one’s wealth leaks out: laziness and negligence, lack of initiative and lack of restraint, sleepiness and sloth. You should completely get rid of these holes!”
Linked Discourses 1.77 8. Slain Authority