{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp1.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp1.11","id":"suttacentral_snp1.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp1.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Walking and standing, sitting and lying down, extending and contracting the limbs: these are the movements of the body. Linked together by bones and sinews, plastered over with flesh and hide, and covered by the skin, the body is not seen as it is. It\u2019s full of guts and belly, liver and bladder, heart and lungs, kidney and spleen, spit and snot, sweat and fat, blood and synovial fluid, bile and grease. Then in nine streams the filth is always flowing. There is muck from the eyes, wax from the ears, and snot from the nostrils. The mouth sometimes vomits bile and sometimes phlegm. And from the body, sweat and waste. Then there is the hollow head all filled with brains. Governed by ignorance, the fool thinks it\u2019s lovely. And when it lies dead, bloated and livid, dumped in a charnel ground, the relatives forget it. It\u2019s devoured by dogs, by jackals, wolves, and worms. It\u2019s devoured by crows and vultures, and any other creatures there. A wise mendicant here, having heard the Buddha\u2019s words, fully understands it, for they see it as it is. \u201cAs this is, so is that, as that is, so is this.\u201d They\u2019d blanch desire for the body inside and out. That wise mendicant here rid of desire and lust, has found the peace free of death, extinguishment, the state that does not pass. This two-legged body is dirty and stinking, full of different carcasses, and oozing all over the place\u2014 but still it is cherished! And if, on account of such a body, someone prides themselves or looks down on others\u2014 what is that but a failure to see?","title":"Victory Over Desire for the Body","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":275}