{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp1-11.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp1-11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp1-11.htm","text":"Whether walking, standing,\nsitting, or lying down,\nit flexes & stretches:\nthis is the body's movement.\nJoined together with tendons & bones,\nplastered over with muscle & skin,\nhidden by complexion,\nthe body isn't seen\nfor what it is:\nfilled with intestines, filled with stomach,\nwith the lump of the liver,\nbladder, lungs, heart,\nkidneys, spleen,\nmucus, sweat, saliva, fat,\nblood, synovial fluid, bile, & oil.\nOn top of that,\nin nine streams,\nfilth is always flowing from it:\nfrom the eyes : eye secretions,\nfrom the ears : ear secretions,\nfrom the nose : mucus,\nfrom the mouth : now vomit,\nnow phlegm,\nnow bile.\nfrom the body : beads of sweat.\nAnd on top of that,\nits hollow head is filled with brains.\nThe fool, beset by ignorance,\nthinks it beautiful.\nbut when it lies dead,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swollen, livid,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cast away in a charnel ground,\neven relatives don't care for it.\nDogs feed on it,\njackals, wolves, & worms.\nCrows & vultures feed on it,\nalong with any other animals there.\nHaving heard the Awakened One's words,\nthe discerning monk\ncomprehends, for he sees it\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for what it is:\n\"As this is, so is that.\nAs that, so this.\"\nWithin & without,\nhe should let desire for the body\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fade away.\nWith desire & passion faded away,\nthe discerning monk arrives here:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 at the deathless,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the calm,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the undying state\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of Unbinding.\nThis two-footed, filthy, evil-smelling,\nfilled-with-various-carcasses,\noozing-out-here-&-there body:\nWhoever would think,\non the basis of a body like this,\nto exalt himself or disparage another:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is that\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if not blindness?","title":"Sn I.11: Vijaya Sutta","type":"page"}