Desires
Just as I am afraid of the objects of the senses, not I fear neither serpents nor lightning falling from heaven nor fire and wind together. The pleasures are impermanent fact, thieves of good intentions, mirage-like compartments in this world: if only you want, and disrupt the human mind: the more so if you made! Those pleasures are not subjugated to heaven and find happiness even alone in the world of men, the pleasures do not satisfy those who want them, as the fuel is not worth the fire accompanied by the wind. On earth there is no pleasure equal to disaster, but people adhere to them for their delusion: knowing that things are so, who is the wise who hanker fearful of misfortune he himself is the misfortune? Even if you have taken over the earth, which is surrounded by the sea, wish to conquer the other side of the vast ocean: men do not want to meet, as well as the ocean water which falls .(....) It 'just noticed that people give up when they understand the passions and the unhappiness of those who are addicted and is plagued by troubles such as agriculture and so via both the tranquility of attraction for those who do not test them. For the passionate man's success in the passions must be regarded as a ruin in realizing he falls prey to intoxication, the thrill is what you should not do, does not do what it should and broken by this, leads to a bad rebirth.
Those who, after having sought and won are gripped by greed and do not let them get caught by the pain in the pleasures of torches of hay, as a person can find pleasure on earth? The misguided, bitten to the heart from them, go broke and not to the happiness in the pleasures that are like snakes, angry and cruel, as prudent person can find pleasure? Dogs tormented by hunger gnaw un osso, gli uomini ne fruiscono ma non sono soddisfatti: nei piaceri simili a scheletri di ossa spolpate, quale persona accorta può trovare diletto?
Asvaghosa "Buddhacharita" - Le gesta del Buddha
