Thag 1:109 · Saṅgharakkhita
Why,
having gone into solitude,
does he not take account
of the message
of the one sympathetic
to his foremost well-being?
Because he dwells
with his faculties
exposed,
like a tender deer
in the forest.
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).
