192 



BUDDHISM. 



By me a sinful act has been committed, cohabitation with my 

 former wife. I am perplexed on account of it, and much grieved. 

 Certainly I have sustained losses ; certainly it is not profitable 

 to me ; certainly it is a bad matter ; and certainly there is no 

 gain. And although I have become a Bhikkhu of the well- 

 enunciated course of discipline, I shall not be able, to the end 

 of life, to complete the perfect and pure Brahmachariya. — O 

 friend Sudinno, you may well be perplexed and sorrowful. 

 You having become a Bhikkhu of the well-enunciated course 

 of discipline, will not be able, to the end of your life, to fulfil 

 the perfect and pure Brahmachariya. O friend, has not the 

 Dhamma, for the abandonment of lust, been declared by Bha-^ 

 gawa in various ways ? This is not on the behalf of lust. The 

 Dhamma for separation from lust, not for the fulfilling of lust ; 

 the Dhamma for the extinction of lust, not for the operation of 

 lust. Now then, O friend, when Bhagawa has in various ways 

 proclaimed the Dhamma for the abandonment of lust, you are 

 meditating on lust ; when the Dhamma for separation from 

 lust has been declared, you are thinking of fulfilling lust, 

 when the Dhamma for the extinction of lust has been declared, 

 you are thinking on the operation of lust. O friend, has not 

 the Dhamma by Bhagawa for the abandonment of lust been 

 declared in various ways — for the subjugation of pride, for the 

 suppression of the thirst (of lust), for the destruction of being, 

 for the extermination of desire, for the refraining from lust, 

 for extinction, and for Niwan ? O friend, has it not been 

 declared by Bhagawa in various ways, abandonment of lust, 

 the knowledge of the characteristics of lust, the suppression of 

 the thirst of lust, the excision of lustful thoughts, and the 

 quenching of the burnings of lust ? 



This, friend, is neither for the satisfaction of those who 

 are now dissatisfied, nor for the further satisfaction of those 



