sn35.235:1.1 “Mendicants, I will teach you an exposition of the teaching on burning.
sn35.235:1.2 Listen …
sn35.235:1.3 And what is the exposition of the teaching on burning?
sn35.235:1.4 You’d be better off mutilating your eye faculty with a red-hot iron nail, burning, blazing, and glowing, than getting caught up in the features by way of the details in sights known by the eye.
sn35.235:1.5 Should consciousness tied to gratification in the features or details continue to remain, and you were to die at that time, it’s possible you would go to one of two destinations:
sn35.235:1.6 hell or the animal realm.
sn35.235:1.7 I speak having seen this drawback.