Ched du brjod pa'i tshoms (Kangyur, Toh 326) 1.6

1.6

Alas, they delight in what is not Dharma! / Remaining alive for only a little while, / they do not see obstacles ahead. / Destroyed by possessions, the poor-witted / do not seek the beyond; / having lost their wits, through craving for desires, / they ruin themselves and others as well. / Even if a rain of kārṣāpaṇa coins were to fall, / desires would still not bring satisfaction. / Sensual desires offer little gratification and much misery— / the wise have thoroughly understood this. / Even for the desires of the gods, / they will have no excessive longing; / the fully awakened buddhas and their śrāvakas / take delight in the exhaustion of craving. / Even if there were a golden mountain / equal in size to the snow peaks, / understand that not even one person would be satisfied by that wealth, / and practice well. / Those who know suffering and its cause / will never delight in desires. / Knowing them to be the cause of barbs in the world, / they train in the teaching to subdue them. / Chapter 2: Desire. / / Beings who are thoroughly overwhelmed by concepts, / whose passions are unbearable, who view things as clean, / increase their passion further and further, / and thereby make their own fetters tighter. / Those who delight in the pacification of concepts / and always remember to meditate on the repulsive, / by utterly abandoning craving, / cause those fetters of theirs to rot away. / Shrouded by what resembles darkness, / covered over by the veil of craving, / and bound by the bonds of heedlessness, / they are like fish caught in a wicker trap. / A person who practices heedlessness / has craving that grows like a creeping vine; / following after old age and death, / they are like a calf yearning for mother’s milk. / People who are mindful of, attached to, / and conceptualize mental pleasures— / by that, they wander again and again in saṃsāra, / like a monkey in a grove longing for fruit. / People