Verses of the Senior Monks 6.4

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 6.4
2. The Book of the Sixes
3. Chapter One
4. Kulla
5. I, Kulla, 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. “See this bag of bones, Kulla—
10. diseased, filthy, rotten,
11. oozing and trickling,
12. a fool’s delight.”
13. Taking the teaching as a mirror
14. for realizing knowledge and vision,
15. I examined this body,
16. hollow, inside and out.
17. As this is, so is that;
18. as that is, so is this.
19. As below, so above;
20. as above, so below.
21. As by day, so by night;
22. as by night, so by day.
23. As before, so behind;
24. as behind, so before.
25. Even the music of a five-piece band
26. can never give such pleasure
27. as when, with unified mind,
28. you rightly discern the Dhamma.