mn22:6.1 “Futile man, who on earth have you ever known me to teach in that way?
mn22:6.2 Haven’t I said in many ways that obstructive acts are obstructive, and that they really do obstruct the one who performs them?
mn22:6.3 I’ve said that sensual pleasures give little gratification and much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks.
mn22:6.4 With the similes of a skeleton …
mn22:6.5 a scrap of meat …
mn22:6.6 a grass torch …
mn22:6.7 a pit of glowing coals …
mn22:6.8 a dream …
mn22:6.9 borrowed goods …
mn22:6.10 fruit on a tree …
mn22:6.11 a butcher’s knife and chopping board …
mn22:6.12 swords and spears …
mn22:6.13 a cobra’s head, I’ve said that sensual pleasures give little gratification and much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks.
mn22:6.14 But still you misrepresent me by your wrong grasp, harm yourself, and brim with much wickedness.
mn22:6.15 This will be for your lasting harm and suffering.”