འཕགས་པ་བད་སའ་རྒྱལ་པ་འཆར་བྱད་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ལའ 16

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enthralled by them, and enslaved by them.¹⁸ Because of this same love for women, these men are unable to give gifts even to support their women or to practice moral discipline. Infatuated by their women, they will endure their chatter, and even put up with their abuse, evil looks, and reprimands. When abused by women, those men will voluntarily accept it and still regard those same women without ill will. Those men fall under the sway of women who are the objects of their desire.

“Great King, this is the fourth fault of men who crave women, consider filth to be the highest bliss, delight in foulness, and act without awareness. Thereby, they indulge in women and proceed to the lower realms. Great King, a man who possesses these faults comes under the power of sense pleasure.”

The Blessed One then spoke these verses:

“Pursuing sense pleasures in a drunken state,
How could one be happy?
Indulging in these base desires,
How could one be happy?

“Those who perform, without restraint,
The deeds of an inferior being,
And pursue their craving for sense pleasures,
Must suffer their own downfall.

“Those unwise people
Behave like camels and donkeys.
When they see a woman, they rush over,
Just like pigs to a pile of feces.

“Even though the precious objects of their desire
Are stinking and unclean,
Those fools cannot see the faults of those objects—
Like the blind moving through the world.

“Those who are bound by their attachment to material form
Are enthralled by thoughts of sensual pleasure.
Foolish beings who indulge in sense pleasures
Are no different from the likes of dogs and jackals.

“Sound, smell, taste, and touch
Keep ordinary beings
Foolishly spinning in saṃsāra,
Like monkeys tied to a post.

“Foolish beings are shrouded in ignorance.
Covered by a great mass of darkness;

enthralled by them, and enslaved by them.¹⁸ Because of this same love for women, these men are unable to give gifts even to support their women or to practice moral discipline. Infatuated by their women, they will endure their chatter, and even put up with their abuse, evil looks, and reprimands. When abused by women, those men will voluntarily accept it and still regard those same women without ill will. Those men fall under the sway of women who are the objects of their desire.

“Great King, this is the fourth fault of men who crave women, consider filth to be the highest bliss, delight in foulness, and act without awareness. Thereby, they indulge in women and proceed to the lower realms. Great King, a man who possesses these faults comes under the power of sense pleasure.”

The Blessed One then spoke these verses:

“Pursuing sense pleasures in a drunken state,
How could one be happy?
Indulging in these base desires,
How could one be happy?

“Those who perform, without restraint,
The deeds of an inferior being,
And pursue their craving for sense pleasures,
Must suffer their own downfall.

“Those unwise people
Behave like camels and donkeys.
When they see a woman, they rush over,
Just like pigs to a pile of feces.

“Even though the precious objects of their desire
Are stinking and unclean,
Those fools cannot see the faults of those objects—
Like the blind moving through the world.

“Those who are bound by their attachment to material form
Are enthralled by thoughts of sensual pleasure.
Foolish beings who indulge in sense pleasures
Are no different from the likes of dogs and jackals.

“Sound, smell, taste, and touch
Keep ordinary beings
Foolishly spinning in saṃsāra,
Like monkeys tied to a post.

“Foolish beings are shrouded in ignorance.
Covered by a great mass of darkness;