iti95:0.1So It Was Said 95
iti95:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti95:0.3Chapter Five
iti95:0.4Provided With Pleasure
iti95:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti95:2.1“Mendicants, there are these three ways of being provided with sensual pleasures.
iti95:2.2What three?
iti95:2.3Some sensual pleasures are simply present; some are for those who love to create; and some are for those who control what is created by others.
iti95:2.4These are the three ways of being provided with sensual pleasures.”
iti95:2.5The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti95:2.6On this it is said:
iti95:3.1“Sensual pleasures that are simply present,
iti95:3.2gods who control what is created by others,
iti95:3.3gods who love to create,
iti95:3.4and others who indulge in sensual pleasures—
iti95:3.5They go from this state to another,
iti95:3.6but don’t escape transmigration.
iti95:4.1Knowing this danger
iti95:4.2in sensual indulgence, an astute person
iti95:4.3would forsake all sensual pleasures,
iti95:4.4both human and heavenly.
iti95:5.1Having cut the stream so hard to pass,
iti95:5.2that’s tied to pleasant seeming things,
iti95:5.3they become fully extinguished,
iti95:5.4completely transcending suffering.
iti95:6.1Seers of the noble truths, knowledge masters,
iti95:6.2the astute, understanding rightly,
iti95:6.3directly know the ending of rebirth,
iti95:6.4they come not back to future lives.”
iti95:7.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.