Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Verses of the Senior Monks 1.93

The Book of the Ones

Chapter Ten

Eraka

Sensual pleasures are suffering, Eraka!

Sensual pleasures aren’t happiness, Eraka!

One who enjoys sensual pleasures

enjoys suffering, Eraka!

One who doesn’t enjoy sensual pleasures

doesn’t enjoy suffering, Eraka!