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11.
The Discourse on Victory
195.
Whether walking or standing, sitting or lying down;
One bends and stretches - this is the movement of the body.
196.
Bound together by bones and sinews, plastered with skin and flesh;
The body is concealed by the outer skin, it is not seen as it really is.
197.
Full of intestines, full of stomach, of the liver, of the container, of the bladder;
Of the heart, of the lungs, of the kidneys, and of the spleen.
198.
Of mucus, of spittle, of sweat and of fat;
Of blood, of synovic fluid, of bile and of grease.
199.
Then from its nine streams, impurity flows always;
From the eye, eye-filth, from the ear, ear-filth.
200.
And snot from the nose, and sometimes one vomits through the mouth;
One vomits bile and phlegm, and from the body sweat and dirt.
201.
Then its hollow head, filled with brain;
The fool imagines it as beautiful, led on by ignorance.
202.
And when he lies dead, bloated and discoloured;
Cast aside in the cemetery, relatives become without concern.
203.
Dogs eat it, and jackals, wolves, and worms;
Crows and vultures eat it, and whatever other living beings there are.
204.
Having heard the Buddha's teaching, a monk with wisdom here;
He fully understands it, for he sees it as it really is.
205.
Just as this is, so is that; just as that is, so is this;
Internally and externally, one should remove desire regarding the body.
206.
He, dispassionate from desire and lust, a monk with wisdom here;
Attained the Deathless, peace, Nibbāna, the imperishable state.
207.
This two-footed one is impure, foul-smelling, it carries about;
Full of various corpses, oozing here and there.
208.
With such a body, whoever might think to exalt himself;
Or might despise another, what else could it be but not seeing?
The Discourse on Victory is concluded as eleventh.
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