Sutta Nipāta — Antologia de Discursos — 4.7 — With Tissametteyya

1“When someone indulges in sex,”
said Venerable Tissametteyya, “tell us, good fellow: what trouble befalls them?
After hearing your instruction,
we shall train in seclusion.”

2“When someone indulges in sex,”
replied the Buddha, “they forget their instructions
and go the wrong way—
that is something ignoble in them.

3Someone who formerly lived alone
and then resorts to sex
is like a chariot careening off-track;
in the world they call them a low, ordinary person.

4Their former fame and reputation
also fall away.
Seeing this, they’d train
to give up sex.

5Oppressed by thoughts,
they brood like a wretch.
When they hear what others are saying,
that sort is embarrassed.

6Then they lash out with verbal daggers
when reproached by others.
This is their great blind spot;
they sink to lies.

7They once were considered astute,
committed to the solitary life.
But then they indulged in sex,
dragged along by desire like a dullard.

8Knowing this danger
in falling from a former state here,
a sage would firmly resolve to wander alone,
and would not resort to sex.

9They’d train themselves only in seclusion;
this, for the noble ones, is highest.
One who’d not think themselves ‘best’ due to that
has truly drawn near to extinguishment.

10People tied to sensual pleasures envy them:
the isolated, wandering sage
who has crossed the flood,
unconcerned for sensual pleasures.”