Iti 28 · uttaka 28
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Endowed with two things, monks, a monk lives in stress in the present life–troubled, distressed, & feverish–and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected. Which two? A lack of guarding of the doors of the sense faculties, and knowing no moderation in food. Endowed with these two things, a monk lives in stress in the present life–troubled, distressed, & feverish–and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected.”
Eye & ear & nose,
tongue, body & mind:
when a monk leaves these doors unguarded
–knowing no moderation in food,
not restraining his senses–
he experiences stress:
stress in body, stress
in mind.
Burning in body,
burning in mind,
whether by day or by night,
one like this
lives in suffering & stress.
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
