འཕགས་པ་བད་སའ་རྒྱལ་པ་འཆར་བྱད་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ལའ 11

11

Or their sons and daughters, and, instead, bring them pain.

“Constantly chattering about intimacy with women
And fully preoccupied with such behavior,
They amass negative deeds in a net of delusion
And pave the way to the lower realms.

“Perceiving their passion as bliss,
These people utterly abandon both father and mother.
They fail to make offerings those who are worthy
And indulge in sense pleasures that ought to be deplored.

“Such people seek their own torment here and there.
The flow of their thoughts is certain to cause destruction.
Those afflicted people search for praise and delight therein.
Such ignoble people are not of the Dharma, but wholly of the world.

“On that basis, they are bound to experience
Torment from weapons and iron shackles,
From bonds, battles, strife, and certain death,
After they die, they will go to the fearsome Hell of Endless Torment.

“In this very life, too, such suffering abounds.
As their wealth diminishes and their beauty fades,
The higher realms slip away and they descend to hell.
Thus, who among the wise would give rise to desirous thoughts.

“Even for the wise, it is easy to lose themselves
In the midst of dense forests made of iron.
It is easy for the learned to get cut on the razor blades.
It is all too easy to end up preparing one’s bed of knives.

“It is easy to end up seizing lumps of burning iron;
It is easy to end up swallowing such iron balls.
To encounter fearsome, fiery pits is easy indeed.
Thus, never let your two hands touch a woman.

“The extent to which people indulge in sense pleasures
Is the extent to which they forsake complete happiness.
Given that sense pleasures are nothing but pain and filth,
Give up such pleasures, along with misery and impurity.

“Desires are the ground for all suffering,
For they cause one’s wealth to be squandered.
Attraction is the root of men’s downfall;
Thus, those who associate with women find only pain.

Or their sons and daughters, and, instead, bring them pain.

“Constantly chattering about intimacy with women
And fully preoccupied with such behavior,
They amass negative deeds in a net of delusion
And pave the way to the lower realms.

“Perceiving their passion as bliss,
These people utterly abandon both father and mother.
They fail to make offerings those who are worthy
And indulge in sense pleasures that ought to be deplored.

“Such people seek their own torment here and there.
The flow of their thoughts is certain to cause destruction.
Those afflicted people search for praise and delight therein.
Such ignoble people are not of the Dharma, but wholly of the world.

“On that basis, they are bound to experience
Torment from weapons and iron shackles,
From bonds, battles, strife, and certain death,
After they die, they will go to the fearsome Hell of Endless Torment.

“In this very life, too, such suffering abounds.
As their wealth diminishes and their beauty fades,
The higher realms slip away and they descend to hell.
Thus, who among the wise would give rise to desirous thoughts.

“Even for the wise, it is easy to lose themselves
In the midst of dense forests made of iron.
It is easy for the learned to get cut on the razor blades.
It is all too easy to end up preparing one’s bed of knives.

“It is easy to end up seizing lumps of burning iron;
It is easy to end up swallowing such iron balls.
To encounter fearsome, fiery pits is easy indeed.
Thus, never let your two hands touch a woman.

“The extent to which people indulge in sense pleasures
Is the extent to which they forsake complete happiness.
Given that sense pleasures are nothing but pain and filth,
Give up such pleasures, along with misery and impurity.

“Desires are the ground for all suffering,
For they cause one’s wealth to be squandered.
Attraction is the root of men’s downfall;
Thus, those who associate with women find only pain.