Theragatha
Chapter XXI

264

Vangisa (Excerpt)

Translated from the Pali by Hellmuth Hecker and Sister Khema.
For free distribution only.

From Ānanda: The Guardian of the Dhamma (WH 273/274), by Hellmuth Hecker, translated from the German by Sister Khema (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1980). Copyright © 1980 Buddhist Publication Society. Used with permission.

 

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1224. Since your perception is distorted,
Your heart with passion is aflame.
The marks of beauty should you shun,
Bound up with lustful longing and desire.

1225. Your mind, one-pointed and collected,
In seeing foulness should be cultivated.
With mindfulness directed on the body,
Dwell often in disgust sense of compunctioning it.