“‘Danger’, mendicants, is a term for sensual pleasures. ‘Suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’, ‘snare’, and ‘bog’ are terms for sensual pleasures.

And why is ‘danger’ a term for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from dangers in this life or in lives to come. That is why ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures.

And why are ‘suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’, ‘snare’, and ‘bog’ terms for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from suffering, disease, boils, chains, or bogs in this life or in lives to come. That is why these are terms for sensual pleasures.

Danger, suffering, disease, boils,
and snares and bogs both.
These describe the sensual pleasures
to which ordinary people are attached.
Seeing the danger in grasping,
the origin of birth and death,
the unattached are freed
with the ending of birth and death.
Happy, they’ve come to a safe place,
quenched in this very life.
They’ve gone beyond all threats and dangers,
and risen above all suffering.”

The Numbered Discourses

|_【6】 The Book Of Sixes

|__A. The First Fifty

|___III. The Chapter on Unsurpassable

AN6.23 Dangers

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