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Thag 2.16
PTS: Thag 151-152
Mahakala
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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This swarthy woman
[preparing a corpse for cremation]
— crow-like, enormous —
breaking a thigh & then the other
thigh,
breaking an arm & then the other
arm,
cracking open the head,
like a pot of curds,
she sits with them heaped up beside her.
Whoever, unknowing,
makes acquisitions
— the fool —
returns over & over
to suffering & stress.
So, discerning,
don't make acquisitions.
May I never lie
with my head cracked open
again.
©2005 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 4 August 2010.
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