As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain of life will return again and again.
He whose thirst running towards pleasure is exceedingly strong in the thirty-six channels, the waves will carry away that misguided man, that is, his desires which are set on passion.
The channels run everywhere, the creeper of passion stands sprouting; if you see the creeper springing up, cut its root by means of knowledge.
A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo, again and again, birth and decay.
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again.
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.
IMAGE: Willow Schafer, Golden Snare (2018)
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