sn35.63:2.1 “Migajāla, there are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
sn35.63:2.2 If a mendicant approves, welcomes, and keeps clinging to them,
sn35.63:2.3 this gives rise to relishing.
sn35.63:2.4 When there’s relishing there’s lust.
sn35.63:2.5 When there’s lust there is yoking.
sn35.63:2.6 A mendicant who is fettered by relishing is said to live with a partner.
sn35.63:2.7 There are sounds … smells … tastes … touches …
sn35.63:2.8 There are ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
sn35.63:2.9 If a mendicant approves, welcomes, and keeps clinging to them,
sn35.63:2.10 this gives rise to relishing.
sn35.63:2.11 When there’s relishing there’s lust.
sn35.63:2.12 When there’s lust there is yoking.
sn35.63:2.13 A mendicant who is fettered by relishing is said to live with a partner.
sn35.63:2.14 A mendicant who lives like this is said to live with a partner, even if they frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest that are quiet and still, far from the madding crowd, remote from human settlements, and fit for retreat.
sn35.63:2.16 Why is that?
sn35.63:2.17 For craving is their partner, and they haven’t given it up.
sn35.63:2.18 That’s why they’re said to live with a partner.