With fault-finding mind, the simpleton 
listens to the victor’s instruction. 
They’re as far from the true teaching 
as the earth is from the sky. 

With fault-finding mind, the simpleton 
listens to the victor’s instruction. 
They fall away from the true teaching, 
like the moon in the waning fortnight. 

With fault-finding mind, the simpleton 
listens to the victor’s instruction. 
They wither away in the true teaching, 
like a fish in a little puddle. 

With fault-finding mind, the simpleton 
listens to the victor’s instruction. 
They don’t thrive in the true teaching, 
like a rotten seed in a field. 

But one with contented mind 
who listens to the victor’s instruction—
having wiped out all defilements; 
having witnessed the unshakable; 
having arrived at ultimate peace—
the undefiled are fully extinguished.”