The Passionless Delight In Forests
The Story of a Woman
Chapter 7: The Arahats • Verse 10
The Story of a Woman
Chapter 7: The Arahats • Verse 10
Inspiring are the forests in which worldlings find no pleasure. There the passionless will rejoice, for they seek no sensual pleasures.
While residing at the Jetavana Monastery, the Buddha spoke this verse with reference to a woman of doubtful character.
A monk who lived on alms received a meditation subject from the Buddha and went to meditate in a dilapidated pleasure garden.
Meanwhile, a courtesan had arranged to meet a man at a certain place. She kept the appointment, but the man never came. After watching the path in vain for some time, she wandered about in disappointment and came into the pleasure garden.
There she saw the monk sitting cross-legged. Looking around and seeing no one else, she decided to throw this man's thoughts into confusion.
Standing in front of him, she repeatedly loosened and retied her undergarment, let down her hair and bound it up again, and clapped her hands and laughed. The monk was stirred, his whole body suffused with excitement, and he wondered what it meant.
Wondering how the monk he had given a meditation subject was faring, the Buddha saw the woman and her conduct, and saw that it was disturbing the monk.
Still seated in his perfumed chamber, the Buddha said that there is no delight where those who pursue their lusts abide, but wherever those who are free from passion dwell, that place is full of delight. He then sent forth a radiant image of himself and, instructing the monk in the Dhamma, recited this verse.
The Story of a Woman
Chapter 7: The Arahats • Verse 10
Inspiring are the forests in which worldlings find no pleasure. There the passionless will rejoice, for they seek no sensual pleasures.
While residing at the Jetavana Monastery, the Buddha spoke this verse with reference to a woman of doubtful character.
A monk who lived on alms received a meditation subject from the Buddha and went to meditate in a dilapidated pleasure garden.
Meanwhile, a courtesan had arranged to meet a man at a certain place. She kept the appointment, but the man never came. After watching the path in vain for some time, she wandered about in disappointment and came into the pleasure garden.
There she saw the monk sitting cross-legged. Looking around and seeing no one else, she decided to throw this man's thoughts into confusion.
Standing in front of him, she repeatedly loosened and retied her undergarment, let down her hair and bound it up again, and clapped her hands and laughed. The monk was stirred, his whole body suffused with excitement, and he wondered what it meant.
Wondering how the monk he had given a meditation subject was faring, the Buddha saw the woman and her conduct, and saw that it was disturbing the monk.
Still seated in his perfumed chamber, the Buddha said that there is no delight where those who pursue their lusts abide, but wherever those who are free from passion dwell, that place is full of delight. He then sent forth a radiant image of himself and, instructing the monk in the Dhamma, recited this verse.