6.
The Discourse on Not Decaying
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"What decays, what does not decay, what is called the side road?
What is the obstacle to mental states, what is the destruction of night and day?
What is the stain of the holy life, what is the bath without water?
"How many holes are there in the world, where wealth does not remain?
Having come to ask the Blessed One, how may we know this?"
"The form of mortals decays, name and clan do not decay;
Lust is called the side road.
"Greed is the obstacle to mental states, age is the destruction of night and day;
Woman is the stain of the holy life, here this generation is attached;
Austere asceticism and the holy life, that is the bath without water.
"Six holes are there in the world, where wealth does not remain;
Laziness and negligence, inactivity and lack of self-control;
Sleepiness and lethargy are those holes, one should avoid them altogether."