“Tell the danger, dear sir, for one given over to sexual intercourse. Having heard your teaching, we'll train in seclusion.” The Buddha:

“In one given over to sexual intercourse, the teaching's confused and he practices wrongly:

this is ignoble
in him.

Whoever once went alone, but then resorts to sexual intercourse

— like a carriage out of control —

is called vile in the world, a person run-of-the-mill. His earlier honor & dignity:

	lost.

Seeing this, he should train himself to abandon sexual intercourse.

Overcome by resolves,

he broods

like a miserable wretch. Hearing the scorn of others,

he's chagrined.

He makes weapons, attacked by the words of others. This, for him, is a great entanglement.

He
sinks
into lies.

They thought him wise

when he committed himself to the life alone, but now that he's given to sexual intercourse

they declare him a fool.

Seeing these drawbacks, the sage

here — before & after —

stays firm in the life alone; doesn't resort to sexual intercourse; would train himself in seclusion —

	this, for the noble ones, is
	supreme.

He wouldn't, because of that, think himself better than others: He's on the verge

of Unbinding.

People enmeshed in sensual pleasures, envy him: free,

	a sage

leading his life unconcerned for sensual pleasures

— one who's crossed over the flood."