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Thag 2.19 Nanda

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Thag 2.19 - Nanda
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Verses of the Senior Monks 2.19
The Book of the Twos
Chapter Two
Nanda
Because of focusing on the wrong things,
I was addicted to ornamentation.
I was vain, fickle,
racked by desire for pleasures of the senses.
But with the help of the Buddha,
the Kinsman of the Sun, so skilled in means,
I practiced rationally and extracted
attachment to continued existence from my mind.