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Dhamma Verses (Dhammapada, KN 2)

Pāli verses with English translation in this collection of 423 Dhamma verses, along with their story and moral.

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11: The Chapter about Old Age – 146<br />

Why delight in bones<br />

Some monks attained absorption and thinking they had<br />

Awakened they went to see the Buddha; the Buddha sent them<br />

to the charnel ground, and when they saw female corpses they<br />

realised they still had lust; the Buddha then gave them this<br />

teaching.<br />

149. Yānimāni apatthāni alāpūneva sārade<br />

kāpotakāni aṭṭhīni, tāni disvāna kā rati?<br />

Like discarded white gourds<br />

thrown away in autumn<br />

are these grey bones; seeing<br />

them, why is there delight?

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