四十二章經 1.36

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1.36

The Buddha said: "There was a man afflicted with lust whose passions did not cease; he squatted over the edge of an axe to cut off his own genitals. The Buddha said to him: 'Severing your genitals is not as good as severing your mind. The mind is the officer-in-charge; if you halt the officer-in-charge, his followers will all cease. If the perverse mind does not cease, what benefit is there in severing the genitals? You would die in an instant.'" The Buddha said: "The inverted views of the worldly are like this foolish man."

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