Tissa Metteyya

(said the Venerable Tissa Metteyya)

814“For one who indulges in sexual intercourse,”
“tell me, dear sir, of the distress.
Having heard your teaching,
we will train in seclusion.” (1)

(“Metteyya,” the Blessed One said)

815“When one indulges in sexual intercourse,
“even the teaching itself is forgotten,
and he practices wrongly:
this is ignoble in him. (2)

816“One who previously lived alone
but then resorts to sexual intercourse
is like a vehicle that has gone astray:
in the world they call him a low worldling. (3)

817“Whatever fame and acclaim he previously enjoyed,
these fall away from him.
Having seen this, one should train
to abandon sexual intercourse. (4)

818“Oppressed by his thoughts,
he broods like a poor wretch.
Having heard the reprimand of others,
one such as this is humiliated. (5)

819“Then he prepares weapons [of defense]
when reproached by the words of others.
This is a great thicket for him,
that he sinks into false speech. (6)

820“He was known as a wise man
when resolved on living alone,
but when he engaged in sexual intercourse,
like a dullard he is afflicted. (7) [161]

821“Having known this danger
here in the before and after,
a muni should resolutely live alone;
he should not resort to sexual intercourse. (8)

822“One should train just in seclusion;
this is supreme among the noble ones.
One should not conceive oneself best because of this:
then one is indeed close to nibbāna. (9)

823“When the muni lives void,
indifferent to sensual pleasures,
people tied to sensual pleasures envy him
as one who has crossed the flood.” (10)

Tissametteyyasutta

(iccāyasmā tisso metteyyo):

814"Methunamanuyuttassa,
Vighātaṁ brūhi mārisa;
Sutvāna tava sāsanaṁ,
Viveke sikkhissāmase".

(metteyyāti bhagavā):

815 "Methunamanuyuttassa,
Mussate vāpi sāsanaṁ;
Micchā ca paṭipajjati,
Etaṁ tasmiṁ anāriyaṁ.

816 Eko pubbe caritvāna,
methunaṁ yo nisevati;
Yānaṁ bhantaṁva taṁ loke,
hīnamāhu puthujjanaṁ.

817 Yaso kitti ca yā pubbe,
hāyate vāpi tassa sā;
Etampi disvā sikkhetha,
methunaṁ vippahātave.

818 Saṅkappehi pareto so,
kapaṇo viya jhāyati;
Sutvā paresaṁ nigghosaṁ,
maṅku hoti tathāvidho.

819 Atha satthāni kurute,
paravādehi codito;
Esa khvassa mahāgedho,
mosavajjaṁ pagāhati.

820 Paṇḍitoti samaññāto,
ekacariyaṁ adhiṭṭhito;
Athāpi methune yutto,
mandova parikissati.

821 Etamādīnavaṁ ñatvā,
Muni pubbāpare idha;
Ekacariyaṁ daḷhaṁ kayirā,
Na nisevetha methunaṁ.

822 Vivekaññeva sikkhetha,
etaṁ ariyānamuttamaṁ;
Na tena seṭṭho maññetha,
sa ve nibbānasantike.

823 Rittassa munino carato,
Kāmesu anapekkhino;
Oghatiṇṇassa pihayanti,
Kāmesu gadhitā pajā"ti.

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Tissametteyyasuttaṁ sattamaṁ.