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Ānandasuttaṃ [SN 8.4, PTS 1.188]

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The Discourse on Ānanda

212.More DetailsCommentaries On one occasion the Venerable Ānanda was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park. Then the Venerable Ānanda, having dressed in the earlier period of the day, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for almsfood with the Venerable Vaṅgīsa as his attendant monk. Now at that time discontent had arisen in the Venerable Vaṅgīsa, lust assailed his mind. Then the Venerable Vaṅgīsa addressed the Venerable Ānanda in verse -

"I am burning with sensual lust, my mind is consumed;

Please tell me the quenching, out of compassion, O Gotama."

"Through perversion of perception, your mind is consumed;

Avoid the sign of the beautiful connected with lust.

"See activities as alien, as suffering, and not as self;

Quench the great lust, do not be burnt again and again.

"Develop the mind towards foulness, fully focused, well concentrated;

Let mindfulness directed to the body be yours, be full of disenchantment.

"And develop the signless, abandon the underlying tendency to conceit;

Then through the full realisation of conceit, you will live at peace."

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