Verses of the Senior Monks 2.9

The Book of the Twos

Chapter One

Gotama (1st)

Sages sleep at ease

when they’re not bound to women.

For the truth is hard to find among them

and one must always be guarded.

Sensual pleasure, you’ve been slain!

We’re not in your debt any more.

Now we go to extinguishment,

where there is no sorrow.