Craving is Like a Lustful Woman

“Oh good man! How is it that things happen as with a lustful woman? For example, an ignorant person befriends a lustful woman, who cleverly feigns, flatters, and shows familiarity, and takes all the money and wealth of that person. When everything is over, the woman leaves him. So do things go with the lustful woman of craving. The dull and those who have no wisdom lean for her. This woman of craving deprives them of all that is good. When the good comes to the end, the craving leads them into the three evil realms, except the Bodhisattva. This is why we say that things happen as with a lustful woman.”

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