Bhayasutta

“‘Bhayan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Dukkhan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Rogo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Gaṇḍo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Sallan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Saṅgo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Paṅko’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. ‘Gabbho’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. 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 … ‘gaṇḍo’ti … ‘sallan’ti … ‘saṅgo’ti … ‘paṅko’ti … ‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ? Yasmā ca kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi gabbhā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘gabbho’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.

“Mendicants, ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures. ‘Suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’, ‘dart’, ‘chain’, ‘bog’, and ‘womb’ 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’, ‘dart’, ‘chain’, ‘bog’, 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.

Bhayaṁ dukkhañca rogo ca, gaṇḍo sallañca saṅgo ca; Paṅko gabbho ca ubhayaṁ, ete kāmā pavuccanti; Yattha satto puthujjano.

Danger, suffering, and disease, boil, dart, and chain, and bogs and wombs both. These describe the sensual pleasures to which ordinary people are attached.

Otiṇṇo sātarūpena, puna gabbhāya gacchati; Yato ca bhikkhu ātāpī, sampajaññaṁ na riccati.

Swamped by things that seem pleasant, you go to another womb. But when a mendicant is keen, and doesn’t forget awareness,

So imaṁ palipathaṁ duggaṁ, atikkamma tathāvidho; Pajaṁ jātijarūpetaṁ, phandamānaṁ avekkhatī”ti. Chaṭṭhaṁ.

in this way that sort transcend this grueling swamp. They watch this population flounder, fallen into rebirth and old age.”