Bhayasutta — Reader

Danger

Bhayasutta

“Mendicants, ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures. ‘Suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’,

“‘Bhayan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Dukkhan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Rogo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Gaṇḍo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.

‘dart’, ‘chain’, ‘bog’, and ‘womb’ are terms for sensual pleasures.

‘Sallan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Saṅgo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Paṅko’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Gabbho’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.

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’,

Kasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ? Yasmā ca kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. Kasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘dukkhan’ti …pe… ‘rogo’ti …

‘boil’, ‘dart’, ‘chain’, ‘bog’,

‘gaṇḍo’ti … ‘sallan’ti … ‘saṅgo’ti … ‘paṅko’ti …

and ‘womb’ terms for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from wombs in this life or in lives to come. That is why ‘womb’ is a term for sensual pleasures. Danger, suffering, and disease, boil, dart, and chain,

‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ? Yasmā ca kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. Bhayaṁ dukkhañca rogo ca, gaṇḍo sallañca saṅgo ca;

and bogs and wombs both. These describe the sensual pleasures to which ordinary people are attached. Swamped by things that seem pleasant,

Paṅko gabbho ca ubhayaṁ, ete kāmā pavuccanti; Yattha satto puthujjano. Otiṇṇo sātarūpena,

you go to another womb. But when a mendicant is keen, and doesn’t forget awareness, in this way that sort transcend

puna gabbhāya gacchati; Yato ca bhikkhu ātāpī, sampajaññaṁ na riccati. So imaṁ palipathaṁ duggaṁ,

this grueling swamp. They watch this population flounder, fallen into rebirth and old age.”

atikkamma tathāvidho; Pajaṁ jātijarūpetaṁ, phandamānaṁ avekkhatī”ti. Chaṭṭhaṁ.