Verses of the Senior Monks 5.10

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 5.10
2. The Book of the Fives
3. Chapter One
4. Yasadatta
5. With fault-finding mind, the simpleton
6. listens to the victor’s instruction.
7. They’re as far from the true teaching
8. as the earth is from the sky.
9. With fault-finding mind, the simpleton
10. listens to the victor’s instruction.
11. They fall away from the true teaching,
12. like the moon in the waning fortnight.
13. With fault-finding mind, the simpleton
14. listens to the victor’s instruction.
15. They wither away in the true teaching,
16. like a fish in a little puddle.
17. With fault-finding mind, the simpleton
18. listens to the victor’s instruction.
19. They don’t thrive in the true teaching,
20. like a rotten seed in a field.
21. But one with contented mind
22. who listens to the victor’s instruction—
23. having wiped out all defilements;
24. having witnessed the unshakable;
25. having arrived at ultimate peace—
26. the undefiled are fully extinguished.”