SUTRA: Clinging to Sensual Pleasures (2)

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Kāmesu Satta Sutta based on Ven. Thanissaro (trans.), "Attached to Sensual Pleasures (2)" (Ud 7.4 PTS: Ud 75), accesstoinsight.org

My Tibetan guru, Chogyam Trungpa, couldn't let go of his sensual clinginess (Crazy Wisdom).

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Men and women can't be friends. - Why not?

Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One (the Buddha) was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.

On that occasion, most of the people in Sāvatthī were excessively attached to sensual pleasures. They lived infatuated with sensual pleasures (pleasures of the senses), greedy for them, addicted to them, clinging to them, obsessed with them.

Early one morning the Blessed One dressed and with robe and bowl walked into Sāvatthī for alms.

There he saw that the people were excessively attached to sensual pleasures, that they were living infatuated with them, greedy for them, addicted to them, clinging to them, and obsessed with sensual pleasures.

On realizing the significance of what he saw, he exclaimed:

Blinded by sensuality

Covered by a net

Veiled with a veil of craving

Bound by the Kinsman of the Heedless [1]

Like fish in the mouth of a trap [2],

They succumb to aging and death

Like a milk-suckling calf to its mother.

• Note 1: Māra. There is an alliterative play here between the word "bound" (bandhā) and "by the kinsman" (bandhunā).
• 2: This verse, up to this point, is identical with a verse attributed to Ven. Rāhula in Thag 4.8 (Verse 297 in the Pali Text Society edition).
  
• SUTRA: Clinging to Sensual Pleasures (1)