Verses of the Senior Monks 3.12

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 3.12
2. The Book of the Threes
3. Chapter One
4. Uttarapāla
5. I was, indeed, an astute scholar,
6. competent to think on the meaning.
7. The five kinds of sensual stimulation in the world,
8. so delusory, were my downfall.
9. Leaping into Māra’s domain,
10. I was struck by a powerful dart.
11. But I was able to free myself
12. from the trap laid by the King of Death.
13. I have given up all sensual pleasures;
14. all rebirths are shattered;
15. transmigration through births is finished;
16. now there’ll be no more future lives.