諸經要集 12.22

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12.22

First, as for the hindrance of sensual desire: it refers to sitting upright to cultivate meditation while the mind gives rise to sensory desires, with deluded thoughts succeeding one another, seeking them ceaselessly, which ultimately brings about disaster. As in the Dazhidulun: Śubhāṅga, by thinking of the king's daughter, generated a lustful mind from within that was even capable of burning his own body and extending to the heavenly shrine; how much more so when the blazing poison of desire is born—will it not burn all wholesome dharmas? If the mind is attached to desire, there is no way to approach the Way. Therefore, a verse in the treatise states:

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