Itivuttaka 28

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28. Dukkhaviharasuttam (Suffering Causes) 

This was said by the Lord Buddha(Bhagavata), said by the Arahant, so I have heard:

“Endowed with two things, monks, a monk lives in suffering in the present life—troubled, disufferinged, & feverish—and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected. Which two? A lack of guarding of the doors of the sense faculties, and knowing no moderation in food. Endowed with these two things, a monk lives in suffering in the present life—troubled, disufferinged, & feverish—and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected.”

Eye & ear & nose, tongue, body & mind: when a monk leaves these doors unguarded —knowing no moderation in food, not restraining his senses— he experiences suffering: suffering in body, suffering in mind. Burning in body, burning in mind, whether by day or by night, one like this lives in suffering & suffering.