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There are these six drawbacks of habitual laziness.

Because of wrong practice, neither laypeople nor renunciates succeed in the system of the skillful teaching.

Suppose there was a bowl of water that was mixed with dye such as red lac, turmeric, indigo, or rose madder.

Swamped by things that seem pleasant, you go to another womb.

Sensual pleasures aren’t happiness, Eraka!

Three kinds of people are bound for a place of loss

Though in the world, have gone beyond.

My family, why do you urge me on to pleasures, as if you were my enemies?

My friend, what do you see, standing there at the peak?

Trapped in a cave, thickly overspread, sunk in delusion they stay.

I will teach you what fuels and what starves the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.

Suppose a deft butcher or their apprentice was to kill a cow and carve it with a sharp meat cleaver.

What is that grasping by which the world is troubled?

But a foolish and reckless monkey goes up to the tar and grabs it with a hand.

Gnawing on such a fleshless skeleton, would that dog still get rid of its hunger?

This is how the escape from sensual pleasures is explained.

“Suppose, bhikkhus, a man was being borne along by the current of a river that seemed pleasant and agreeable.