iti91:2.1 “This is the last of lifestyles, mendicants, namely relying on alms.
BAGIAN 2
iti91:2.2 The world curses you: ‘You beggar, walking bowl in hand!’
iti91:2.3 Yet earnest gentlemen take it up for a good reason.
iti91:2.4 Not to escape a summons by a king or a summons for a bandit, or because you were in debt or in fear, or in order to make a living.
iti91:2.5 Rather, because they think: ‘I’m swamped by rebirth, old age, and death; by sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. I’m swamped by suffering, mired in suffering.
iti91:2.6 Hopefully I can make an end to this entire mass of suffering.’
iti91:2.7 That’s how this gentleman has gone forth.
iti91:2.8 Yet they covet sensual pleasures; they’re infatuated, full of ill will and malicious intent. They are unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties.
iti91:2.9 Suppose there was a firebrand for lighting a funeral pyre, burning at both ends, and smeared with dung in the middle. It couldn’t be used as timber either in the village or the wilderness.
iti91:2.10 I say that individual is just like this. They’ve missed out on the pleasures of the lay life, and haven’t fulfilled the goal of the ascetic life.”
iti91:2.11 The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti91:2.12 On this it is said: