The History of Buddhist Thought c12.33

c12.33

Secondly, he keeps the door of his senses guarded. If he sees anything, he does not devote his attention to its characteristics or its details. As greed and dejection ² and evil thoughts might flow into him if he did not restrain his sense of sight, he restrains and guards it, and so of the other five senses.³ Thus, having this restraint of the senses, he feels an inner unmixed pleasure.