06 October 2023

Abstaining from desire




The five colors make the human eye blind.
The five notes make the human ear deaf.
The five tastes make the human mouth blunt.

Horse-racing, over-riding, [and] field-hunting make the human heart turn mad.
The difficulty in the obtaining of treasures makes the human conduct checked.

Therefore the holy man attends to the inner [the soul]
not he attends to to the eye [the visible, the outer].
Therefore he dismisses the latter, he takes the former.


 
Ochraceous bulbul

Buff-vented bulbul (july 2024)


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