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Thig VI.7
(vv. 163-168)

Gutta

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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[The Buddha admonished me:]
Gutta, devote yourself to the goal
for which you went forth,
having discarded [hope]
for a dear son of your own.
	Don't fall under the sway
	of the mind.

Hoodwinked by mind,
beings in love with Mara's realm,
	roam
through the many-birth wandering-on,
	 unknowing.

Abandoning these lower fetters, nun —
	sensual desire, ill will,
	self-identity views,
	grasping at precepts & practices,
	and uncertainty as the fifth —
		you won't come
		to this again.

Forsaking 	passion, conceit,
	ignorance, & restlessness
	—cutting through [all] the fetters —	
	you will make an end
	of suffering & stress.

Discarding birth & wandering-on,
comprehending further becoming,
	free from hunger
in the right-here-&-now
you will go about
	totally calmed.

Revised: Sunday 2005-07-03
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