Thi 6.7 Gutta
Gutta
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
[The Buddha admonished me:]
Gutta, devote yourself to the goal for which you went forth, having discarded [hope] for a dear son of your own. Don't fall under the sway of the mind. Hoodwinked by mind, beings in love with Mara's realm, roam through the many-birth wandering-on, unknowing. Abandoning these lower fetters, nun, sensual desire, ill will, self-identity views, grasping at precepts & practices, and uncertainty as the fifth you won't come to this again. Forsaking passion, conceit, ignorance, & restlessness, cutting through [all] the fetters you will make an end of suffering & stress. Discarding birth & wandering-on, comprehending further becoming, free from hunger in the right here & now you will go about totally calmed.