Verses of the Senior Monks 2.16

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 2.16
2. The Book of the Twos
3. Chapter Two
4. Mahākāḷa
5. There’s a big black woman who looks like a crow.
6. She broke off thigh-bones, first one then another;
7. she broke off arm-bones, first one then another;
8. she broke off a skull like a curd-bowl, and then
9. arranged them and sat nearby.
10. When an ignorant person builds up attachments,
11. that dullard returns to suffering again and again.
12. So let one who understands
    not build up attachments:
13. may I never again lie with a broken skull!