Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.184

  1. Wilderness Dwellers

Charnel Ground Dwellers

“Mendicants, these five dwell in a charnel ground.

What five?

One may dwell in a charnel ground because of stupidity … corrupt wishes … madness … because it is praised by the Buddhas … or for the sake of having few wishes …

These are the five who dwell in a charnel ground.”