Posted on Aug.08.2009 @ 10:58PM EDT by chontri
What, monks, is the world? The eye and shapes, the ear and sounds,
the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and tactile objects,
the mind and mental objects - these...
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NO OTHER FORM
On one occasion, the Buddha said to the monks this:
"No other form do I know, O monks, that so persists in obsessing the mind of a man as the form of a woman. The form of a woman persists in obsessing the mind of a man.
"No other sound do I know that so persists in obsessing the mind of a man as the sound of a woman... No other scent do I know ... No other taste do I know ... No other touch do I know that so persists in obsessing the mind of a man as the touch of a woman. The touch of a woman persists in obsessing the mind of a man.
"No other form do I know, O monks, that so persists in obsessing the mind of a woman as the form of a man. The form of a man persists in obsesssing the mind of a woman.
"No other sound do I know that so persists in obsessing the mind of a woman as the sound of a man... No other scent do I know... No other taste do I know ... No other touch do I know that so persists in obsessing the mind of a woman as the touch of a man. The touch of a man persists in obsessing the mind of a woman."
Anguttara Nikaya translated by Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi
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