Unable to protect the mind from such thoughts, suffering follows them because of all five.
This body is full of pus and blood, it’s home to many carcasses; but cunning people decorate it like a lovely painted casket.
You don’t understand that the sweetness of honey turns bitter, and the bonds to those we love cause pain, like a razor’s edge smeared with honey.
Full of lust for the sight of a woman, for the voice and the smells of a woman, for a woman’s touch, you experience many kinds of suffering.
All of a woman’s streams flow from five to five. Whoever, being energetic, is able to curb these,
purposeful and firm in principle, is clever and clear-seeing. Though he might enjoy himself, his duty is connected with the teaching and its goal.
One who’s diligent and discerning, thinking, ‘This ought not be done’, would avoid a useless task that’s doomed to failure.
Whatever is meaningful, and whatever happiness is principled, let one proceed having undertaken that: this is the best happiness.
They want to get hold of what belongs to others by any means, fair or foul. They kill, injure, and torment, violently plundering what belongs to others.