Thag 10.5 PTS: Thag 567-576- Kappa

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Thag 10.5 PTS: Thag 567-576- Kappa
Full of the many clans of impurities, the great manufacturer of excrement, like a stagnant pool, a great tumor, great wound, full of blood & lymph, immersed in a cesspool, trickling liquids, the body is oozing foulness — always. Bound together with sixty sinews, plastered with a stucco of muscle, wrapped in a jacket of skin, this foul body is of no worth at all. Linked together with a chain of bones, stitched together with tendon-threads, it produces its various postures, <p style="text-align:center;">from being hitched up together. <p style="text-align:center;">Headed surely to death, <p style="text-align:center;">in the presence of the King of Mortality, <p style="text-align:center;">the man who learns to discard it right here, <p style="text-align:center;">goes wherever he wants.

<p style="text-align:center;">Covered with ignorance, <p style="text-align:center;">the body's tied down with a four-fold tie, <p style="text-align:center;">sunk in the floods, <p style="text-align:center;">caught in the net of latencies, <p style="text-align:center;">conjoined with five hindrances, <p style="text-align:center;">given over to thought, <p style="text-align:center;">accompanied with the root of craving, <p style="text-align:center;">roofed with delusion's roofing. <p style="text-align:center;">That's how the body functions, <p style="text-align:center;">compelled by the compulsion of kamma, <p style="text-align:center;">but its attainment ends <p style="text-align:center;">in ruin. <p style="text-align:center;">Its many becomings go <p style="text-align:center;">to ruin.

<p style="text-align:center;">These who hold to this body as mine <p style="text-align:center;">— blind fools, people run-of-the-mill — <p style="text-align:center;">fill the horrific cemetery, <p style="text-align:center;">taking on further becoming. <p style="text-align:center;">Those who stay uninvolved with this body <p style="text-align:center;">— as they would with a serpent <p style="text-align:center;">smeared with dung — <p style="text-align:center;">disgorging the root of becoming, <p style="text-align:center;">from lack of effluent, <p style="text-align:center;">will be totally Unbound.