Numbered Discourses 5.249

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.249
2. 25. Bad Conduct
3. A Charnel Ground
4. “Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks to a charnel ground.
5. What five?
6. It’s filthy, stinking, frightening, a gathering place for savage monsters, and a weeping place for many people.
7. These are the five drawbacks of a charnel ground.
8. In the same way there are five drawbacks of a person like a charnel ground.
9. What five?
10. To start with, a person has filthy conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.
11. This is how they’re filthy, I say.
12. That person is just as filthy as a charnel ground.
13. Because of their filthy conduct, they get a bad reputation.
14. This is how they’re stinky, I say.
15. That person is just as stinky as a charnel ground.
16. Because of their filthy conduct, good-hearted spiritual companions avoid them from afar.
17. That’s how they’re frightening, I say.
18. That person is just as frightening as a charnel ground.
19. Because of their filthy conduct, they live together with people of a similar character.
20. This is how they gather with savage monsters, I say.
21. That person is just as much a gathering place of savage monsters as a charnel ground.
22. Because of their filthy conduct, when good-hearted spiritual companions see them they complain:
23. ‘Oh, it’s so painful for us to have to live together with such as these.’
24. This is how there’s weeping, I say.
25. This person is just as much a weeping place for many people as a charnel ground.
26. These are the five drawbacks of a person like a charnel ground.”