Property:SanskritTranslation
From Bodhicitta
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These are the same bones, not others. They are now free, without an owner. Why will you not find pleasure in embracing them now that you can do it freely? +
This is the face you sometimes would see when at great pains you could get her to look up, for her face always looked down bashfully; but sometimes you could not see it, for it was once hidden by a veil. +
This same face is now unveiled by vultures as if they could not bear your longing. Look at it. Why do you now turn away? +
The same face you used to protect from the glances of others, now is being devoured by others. Why don’t you, who were so jealous before, now come to its rescue? +
Upon seeing this mass of flesh devoured by vultures and jackals, you will understand that your gifts of garlands, jewels, and perfumes prepared a feast for others. +
If you tremble now like this when you see an unmoving skeleton, why are you not scared when one spirit or another moves the skeleton of a living person? +
When it is covered by flesh it moves you to passion; why is it unattractive to you once it is uncovered? If you truly did not care for it, why did you caress it when it was covered? +
Saliva and feces have the same source—food. If you find feces repugnant, why do you find pleasure in swallowing your own saliva? +
Why should one impermanent being become attached to another impermanent being, since one will not see again one’s beloved for a thousand lives? +
Lecherous humans, obsessed with impurity, cannot find peace on their cotton pillows, soft though they may be, because they do exude the stench of the human body. +
If impurity displeases you, why do you embrace someone who is a frame of bones held together by tendons and plastered with the mortar of flesh? +
You yourself are full of impurities. Be satisfied with these, if you are so eager to enjoy impurity. Forget other bags of filth. +
You say you desire this flesh. And you want to see and feel it. Why do you want to touch and feel that whose nature is to be unconscious? +
The mind in this body you crave for cannot be seen or felt. The body which you can see and feel takes notice of nothing. Why do you embrace it, oh fool? +
There is nothing surprising in that you cannot see that somebody else’s body is made of impurities, but it is amazing that you cannot see that yours is so made. +
What pleasure can you find in a box of filth, your mind drunk with impurity, that you wall even ignore a tender lotus blooming under a sun in cloudless sky? +
You refuse to touch the ground or any object tainted by feces; why do you seek to touch the body whence it came? +
If you feel so much disgust toward impurities, why do you embrace the body, which was conceived and gestated in a bag of impurities? +
For as long as one does not see the object of one's love, one will find no rest, and thus will not be able to establish concentration. But even if one does see the object of one’s love, one is never sated, and thirst continues to oppress him as before. +
You find repulsive the impure maggot that grows in feces. Is it only because it is so small? After all, you are attracted by a body which is also born from and made of impurities. +
