Verses of the Senior Monks 5.1

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 5.1
2. The Book of the Fives
3. Chapter One
4. Rājadatta
5. I, a monk, went to a charnel ground
6. and saw a woman’s body abandoned there,
7. discarded in a cemetery,
8. full of worms that devoured.
9. Some men were disgusted,
10. seeing her dead and rotten;
11. but sexual desire arose in me,
12. I was as if blind to her oozing body.
13. Quicker than the cooking of rice
14. I left that place!
15. Mindful and aware,
16. I retired to a discreet place.
17. Then the realization
18. came upon me—
19. the danger became clear,
20. and I was firmly disillusioned.
21. Then my mind was freed—
22. see the excellence of the teaching!
23. I’ve attained the three knowledges
24. and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.