འཕགས་པ་བད་སའ་རྒྱལ་པ་འཆར་བྱད་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ལའ 18

18

Even the great stone mountains will be destroyed,
And there will be no protection.

“The way that this fire will consume
The mountains and the oceans
Is the same way that women resemble fire;
They are dangerous and unsettling to men.

“Mucus, phlegm, and saliva,
Fluids running from the head,
And foul-smelling bodily discharge
Are like honey for these foolish beings.²³

“Full of bones and having a mouth for its opening,
A pile of flesh and skin,
And smelling like raw meat,
This despicable body is like a boil.²⁴

“Like a swelling pustule
Filled with a variety of bacteria,
The body is but a receptacle
For feces and other types of filth.²⁵

“The body is stuffed with intestines,
Colon, spleen, and lungs,
Kidneys, blood, and bile,
Brains, bone, and marrow.²⁶

“Shrouded in a veil of delusion,
Foolish beings do not even see
The eighty thousand types of organisms
That dwell within their innards.²⁷

“The nine bodily orifices
Are constantly excreting putrid filth,
Yet fools grasp at appearances,
Only what they can see and hear.²⁸

“Those fools, whose abode is filth
And who feed on mucus and saliva,
After they feel desire
Do not understand that this is a place despised by all.²⁹

“Like flies that have spotted a wo་und,
They desire contemptible things.
Sweat drips from their armpits
And they reek with awful smells.³⁰

“Fools cling to their own suffering,
Having been deceived into harming themselves.
Like fish pulled from water,
This will bring about their ruin.

“The way that one is attacked
By someone wielding a fearsome weapon
Is the way that those attached to sense pleasures
Are attacked by evil, weapon-like women.

“The way that a king is attacked
By an opponent wielding the weapons of conquest
Is the way that those attached to sense pleasures
Are incinerated in the flames of desire.

Even the great stone mountains will be destroyed,
And there will be no protection.

“The way that this fire will consume
The mountains and the oceans
Is the same way that women resemble fire;
They are dangerous and unsettling to men.

“Mucus, phlegm, and saliva,
Fluids running from the head,
And foul-smelling bodily discharge
Are like honey for these foolish beings.²³

“Full of bones and having a mouth for its opening,
A pile of flesh and skin,
And smelling like raw meat,
This despicable body is like a boil.²⁴

“Like a swelling pustule
Filled with a variety of bacteria,
The body is but a receptacle
For feces and other types of filth.²⁵

“The body is stuffed with intestines,
Colon, spleen, and lungs,
Kidneys, blood, and bile,
Brains, bone, and marrow.²⁶

“Shrouded in a veil of delusion,
Foolish beings do not even see
The eighty thousand types of organisms
That dwell within their innards.²⁷

“The nine bodily orifices
Are constantly excreting putrid filth,
Yet fools grasp at appearances,
Only what they can see and hear.²⁸

“Those fools, whose abode is filth
And who feed on mucus and saliva,
After they feel desire
Do not understand that this is a place despised by all.²⁹

“Like flies that have spotted a wo་und,
They desire contemptible things.
Sweat drips from their armpits
And they reek with awful smells.³⁰

“Fools cling to their own suffering,
Having been deceived into harming themselves.
Like fish pulled from water,
This will bring about their ruin.

“The way that one is attacked
By someone wielding a fearsome weapon
Is the way that those attached to sense pleasures
Are attacked by evil, weapon-like women.

“The way that a king is attacked
By an opponent wielding the weapons of conquest
Is the way that those attached to sense pleasures
Are incinerated in the flames of desire.