Sensual pleasures are impermanent, unstable, full of suffering, full of poison, like a red-hot lump of iron; they are the root of affliction and have suffering as their fruit.
ขุ. เถรี. ๒๖/๕๐๓.
The world is shrouded by ignorance and does not appear, because of stinginess (and heedlessness); I declare desire to be the plaster of the world, and suffering its great danger.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๓๐. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๙.
The world is bound by desire; it is released by removing desire; by abandoning desire, one is said to cut all bonds.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๖.
Desire drags people along; desire is hard to abandon in the world; many beings are bound by desire, like a hen-bird caught in a snare.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๖๑.
One who is equanimous and ever mindful, who does not regard himself as equal, superior or inferior to others in the world — he is said to have no swellings (of conceit).
ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๒๗๙. ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๐๑.
A monk who has uprooted the craving for existence, whose mind is at peace, who has ended the round of rebirth, has no further becoming.
ขุ. อุ. ๒๕/๑๔๓.
A monk, knowing the danger thus — that craving is the source of suffering — should be free from craving, without clinging, and mindful in every posture.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๔๗๘. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๓๒๐.
Sensual pleasures, colourful, sweet and delightful, oppress the mind in their various forms; seeing the danger in sensual pleasures, one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๓๓๔.
One should abandon anger, give up conceit and go beyond all fetters; (for) attachments do not follow one who is not attached to name and form and has nothing.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๓๕๐.
One should abandon anger, give up conceit and go beyond all fetters; (for) sufferings do not follow one who is not attached to name and form and has nothing.
ขุ. ธ . ๒๕/๔๔.
Craving gives birth to a person; his mind runs to and fro; the being still wanders on, and so is not freed from suffering.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๑.
Craving gives birth to a person; his mind runs to and fro; the being still wanders on, and so suffering is his great danger.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๑.
Craving gives birth to a person; his mind runs to and fro; the being still wanders on, and so kamma still goes before him.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๒.
The world is built up by craving, hemmed in by old age and shut in by death; thus it stands in suffering.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๕.
The world has delight as its bond and thought as its roaming; by abandoning craving one is said to cut all bonds.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๕.
One whose mind is set on Nibbāna should overcome sleep, sloth and torpor; he should not dwell in heedlessness nor take his stand in arrogance.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๑๘.
One who does not brood over what has not yet come does not grieve over what is past; one who sees seclusion in all contacts is not led astray by views.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๐๐. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๒๖๔,๒๖๒.
One should not delight in the old, nor take pleasure in the new; when something passes away one should not grieve, nor depend on craving.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๑๘.
The world of beings is struck down by Death, hemmed in by old age, pierced by the arrow of craving, and ever smouldering with desire.
สํ. ส. ๑๕/๕๕.
This race of beings is possessed of conceit, bound by conceit, tied fast by conceit; contending because of views, they cannot pass beyond the round of rebirth.
ขุ. อุ. ๒๕/๑๙๓.
The deluded one does not know what is meaningful; the deluded one does not see the Dhamma; when delusion overcomes a person, then darkness prevails.
ขุ. อิติ. ๒๕/๒๙๖. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๑๘.
Whoever has no concern that ‘this is mine, this is another’s’ — not taking anything as his own, he does not grieve that ‘I have nothing’.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๑๙. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๕๓๔.
Whoever has crossed beyond sensual pleasures in the world and the entanglement so hard to cross — having cut the stream of craving, he has no bond; he is said neither to grieve nor to rejoice.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๑๙. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๕๒๗.
Whoever, not knowing, creates substrates of existence is a fool who meets with suffering again and again; therefore one who understands, seeing the source of suffering, should not create substrates.
ขุ. สุ. ๒๕/๕๓๔. ขุ. จู. ๓๐/๘๐,๘๑
The greedy one does not know what is meaningful; the greedy one does not see the Dhamma; when greed overcomes a person, then darkness prevails.
ขุ. อิติ. ๒๕/๒๙๕. ขุ. มหา. ๒๙/๑๗.
Cut down the forest (of defilements), not the trees; from the forest arises danger. Monks! Having cut down the forest and the undergrowth, be without a forest.
ขุ. ธ. ๒๕/๕๒.