Of great advantage is restraint in body, of great advantage is restraint in speech. Of great advantage is restraint in mind, of great advantage is restraint everywhere. The renunciate restrained in everything is freed from all sorrow.
It would be far better to bore out your eyes with red-hot irons than encourage yourselves in sensual thoughts or look upon a man or woman's form with lustful desire.
The renunciate who has retired to a quiet of place [seclusion of heart/mind but not necessarily of body, unless that is needed], who has calmed mind/heart, who clearly perceives the Dharma experiences a joy transcending that of humans.
O renunciates, if you must speak with a [member of the other sex], let it be with pure heart, and think to yourself, "As a renunciate I will live in this corrupting world as the spotless leaf of the lotus, unsoiled by the mud it grows out of."
If the [person] be old, regard that person as your [parent]; if young, as your [sibling]; if very young as your child.
O renunciates, cover your heads with the helmet of right intention, and abandon with fixed resolve the five [strands of sense] desire.
Lust clouds one's heart when it is confused with [form's] beauty and the mind is dazed.
One who is controlled in hand, foot, speech, and in the highest [head], one who delights in meditation and is composed, one who is solitary and contented -- that person is called a renunciate.
One who holds neither "I" nor "me" at all towards mind and body [a stream enterer or other noble disciple], who grieves not for that which one does not have -- that person, indeed, is called a renunciate.
As the jasmine creeper sheds withered flowers, even so, O renunciates, totally shed lust and hatred.
by Wisdom Quarterly
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