sn35.63:3.1 There are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
sn35.63:3.2 If a mendicant doesn’t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to them,
sn35.63:3.3 relishing ceases.
sn35.63:3.4 When there’s no relishing there’s no lust.
sn35.63:3.5 When there’s no lust there’s no yoking.
sn35.63:3.6 A mendicant who is not fettered by relishing is said to live alone.
sn35.63:3.7 There are sounds … smells … tastes … touches …
sn35.63:3.8 There are ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
sn35.63:3.9 If a mendicant doesn’t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to them,
sn35.63:3.10 relishing ceases.
sn35.63:3.11 When there’s no relishing there’s no lust.
sn35.63:3.12 When there’s no lust there’s no yoking.
sn35.63:3.13 A mendicant who is not fettered by relishing is said to live alone.
sn35.63:3.14 A mendicant who lives like this is said to live alone, even if they live within a village crowded by monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen; by rulers and their chief ministers, and monastics of other religions and their disciples.
sn35.63:3.16 Why is that?
sn35.63:3.17 For craving is their partner, and they have given it up.
sn35.63:3.18 That’s why they’re said to live alone.”