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7.
The Discourse on Tissa Metteyya
821.
"For one engaged in sexual intercourse, (thus said the Venerable Tissa Metteyya) tell me the vexation, dear sir;
Having heard your teaching, we shall train in seclusion.
822.
"For one engaged in sexual intercourse, (Metteyya, said the Blessed One) the teaching passes into oblivion;
And he proceeds wrongly, this in him is ignoble.
823.
"Having formerly wandered alone, whoever indulges in sexual intercourse;
Like a vehicle gone astray, they call him in the world a low worldling.
824.
"Whatever fame and renown he had before, that too diminishes for him;
Having seen this too, one should train to abandon sexual intercourse.
825.
"Overcome by thoughts, he broods like a miserable wretch;
Having heard the shouting of others, such a one becomes ashamed.
826.
"Then he makes knives, accused by the doctrines of others;
This indeed is his great greed, he plunges into untruth.
827.
"Designated as wise, determined upon the solitary life;
Yet engaged in sexual intercourse, like a fool he is distressed.
828.
"Having known this danger, the sage regarding the former and latter here;
One should firmly pursue the solitary life, one should not indulge in sexual intercourse.
829.
"One should train in seclusion only, this is the highest for the noble ones;
One should not think oneself the best because of that, he indeed is near to Nibbāna.
830.
"For the sage who wanders free, without longing for sensual pleasures;
People bound to sensual pleasures envy the one who has crossed the flood."
The Discourse on Tissa Metteyya is concluded as seventh.
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