"The urges that come from the senses are trouble,
they are frightening, like a snake’s head,
yet ordinary people, always blind, ever fools,
are still delighted by them.
"Many people in the world are really fools.
Because of the mud of what pleases the senses,
they have no idea where the bounds of birth and death are.
"On account of the urges of the senses,
humans happily follow the road
to lives of misery,
they bring sickness on themselves.
"That’s how the urges of the senses give us enemies,
they are burning and defiling,
the bait in the snare of the world,
fetters, shackles to our actions.
"The urges of the senses are maddening, enticing,
they trouble the mind, they are
a net laid out as a trap by Mara
to defile beings.
"The urges of the senses are endless dangers,
they bring many kinds of suffering and are a great poison,
they give little satisfaction, and instead bring grief,
they dry up the good opportunities that come.
"On account of the urges of the senses,
I have ruined so much.
I will not go back to that again,
now I always take my delight in nibbana
"Longing to become cool,
I did battle with the urges of the senses.
I will live diligent
while the shackles of those urges pass away.
"I will go on that path
by which great sages have reached nibbana.
It is griefless, faultless, full of peace, straight,
the noble eightfold path."
