13.
The Discourse on Uncontrolled Faculties
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On one occasion many monks were dwelling among the Kosalans in a certain jungle thicket, agitated, arrogant, fickle, garrulous, of loose speech, unmindful, not fully aware, unconcentrated, with wandering minds, with uncontrolled faculties.
Then the deity dwelling in that jungle thicket, compassionate towards those monks, desiring their welfare, wishing to arouse a sense of urgency in those monks, approached those monks;
having approached, he addressed those monks in verses -
Without desire they sought almsfood, without desire their lodgings;
Having known impermanence in the world, they made an end of suffering.
Having eaten and eaten, they lie down, infatuated in others' houses.
They are cast away, without protector, just like ghosts, so are they.
Those who dwell heedfully, to them we pay homage."
Then those monks, stirred by that deity, attained a sense of urgency.