Chapter 34
(3) This living body is not filled with sandalwood perfume, etc. In fact, this
body is illed with intestines, newly eaten food, a liver, urine, a heart, a
pair of lungs, a pair of kidney and the spleen.
(4) This living body is filled with the mucus of the nose, saliva, sweat, fat,
blood, sunovic fluid, the bile, and fallow or marrow.
Having preached thus, by these two verses that there is none in the body an organic
particle that is worth keeping with pleasure like pearls, rubies and so on and that this body
is, in fact, full of impurities, the Buddha uttered the following two verses in order to reveal
the internal impurities against the external and in order to combine those already
enumerated with those not enumerated yet:
(5) Athassa navahi sotehi
asucÊ savati sabbadÈ
AkkhimhÈ akkhig|thako,
kaÓÓamhÈ kaÓÓag|thako.
(6) Si~ghÈnikÈ ca nÈsato
mukhena vamatekadÈ.
PittaÑ semhaÒ ca vamati
kÈyamhÈ sedajallikÈ.
(5) Besides, from the nine sore openings of the living body ever
uncontrollably flow at all times, day and night, filthy and loathsome
elements. (How?) From the eyes flow unclean secretion: from the ears
flow the unclean wax.
(6) The impure mucus sometimes flow from the nose; sometimes frothy
food, when vomited, comes out through the mouth. Sometimes the bile as
organ (
baddha
) and the bile as fluid (
abaddha
) and the phlegm come out
frothy from the mouth. From the body come out at all times, day and
night, sweat, salt, moisture, dirt and other impurities.
(Herein since the flow of excrement from the opening of the rectum and that of
urine from the private parts are understood by many and since the Buddha wished
to show His regard for the occasion, the individual and the audience concerned, He
did not mention them explicitly and as He desired only to say that there were
impurities that flow by other means as well, He summarized all in the expression
‚
kÈyamhÈ sedajallikÈ
‛.
(By these two verses the Buddha gave a simile: just as when rice is cooked, the
impure rice water comes up with the scum and overflows the brim of the pot, even
so when the food eaten is cooked by means of the digestive fire element generated
by one's past kamma (
kammaja tejodhÈtu
), impurities, such as secretion of the eye,
etc., come up and overflow the body.)
Head is recognized as the most sacred part of the body in the world. Because of the
sacredness (or sometimes through conceit), the head is not bowed in showing respect even
to those worthy of respect. In order to show that the body was impure and loathsome by
the fact that even the head (as the top of the body) was devoid of essence and purity, the
Buddha uttered this verse:
(7) Athassa susiraÑ sÊsam
matthalu~gassa p|ritam.
Subhato naÑ maÒÒati bÈlo
avijjÈya purakkhato.
Besides, the hollow head of the living body is disgustingly filled with brain.
The fool, who is blind (to reality) through craving, conceit and false view
because he is enveloped wrongly by ignorance, wrongly takes the body thus: