{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp4.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp4.7","id":"suttacentral_snp4.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cWhen someone indulges in sex,\u201d said Venerable Tissametteyya, \u201ctell us, good fellow: what trouble befalls them? After hearing your instruction, we shall train in seclusion.\u201d \u201cWhen someone indulges in sex,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cthey forget their instructions and go the wrong way\u2014 that is something ignoble in them. Someone who formerly lived alone and then resorts to sex is like a chariot careening off-track; in the world they call them a low, ordinary person. Their former fame and reputation also fall away. Seeing this, they\u2019d train to give up sex. Oppressed by thoughts, they brood like a wretch. When they hear what others are saying, that sort is embarrassed. Then they lash out with verbal daggers when reproached by others. This is their great blind spot; they sink to lies. They once were considered astute, committed to the solitary life. But then they indulged in sex, dragged along by desire like a dullard. Knowing this danger in falling from a former state here, a sage would firmly resolve to wander alone, and would not resort to sex. They\u2019d train themselves only in seclusion; this, for the noble ones, is highest. One who\u2019d not think themselves \u2018best\u2019 due to that has truly drawn near to extinguishment. People tied to sensual pleasures envy them: the isolated, wandering sage who has crossed the flood, unconcerned for sensual pleasures.\u201d","title":"With Tissametteyya","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":225}