{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp4-1.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp4-1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp4-1.htm","text":"If one, yearning for sensual pleasure,\nachieves it, yes,\nhe's enraptured at heart.\nThe mortal gets what he wants.\nBut if for him, yearning,\nthe pleasures diminish,\nhe's shattered,\nas if shot with an arrow.\nWhoever avoids sensual desires\nas he would, with his foot,\nthe head of a snake,\ngoes beyond, mindful,\nthis attachment to the world.\nA man who is greedy\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for fields, land, gold,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cattle, horses,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 servants, employees,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 many sensual pleasures,\nis overpowered with weakness\nand trampled by trouble,\nfor pain invades him\nlike water, a cracked boat.\nSo one, always mindful,\nshould avoid sensual desires.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Letting them go,\nhe'd cross over the flood\nlike one who, having bailed out the boat,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 has reached the far shore.","title":"Sn IV.1: Kama Sutta","type":"page"}