[294] "'Peril' (bhaya), bhikkhus, is a designation (adhivacana) of sensual pleasures (kāmā). 'Suffering (dukkha),' bhikkhus, is a designation of sensual pleasures. 'Disease,' bhikkhus, is a designation of sensual pleasures. 'Boil,' bhikkhus, is a designation of sensual pleasures. 'Tie' (saṅga), bhikkhus, is a designation of sensual pleasures. 'Mire' (paṅka), bhikkhus, is a designation of sensual pleasures.
"And why, bhikkhus, is 'peril' a designation of sensual pleasures? One impassioned by lust for sensual pleasures (kāmarāga), bound by desire and lust (chandarāga), is not freed even from the perils pertaining to this present life, nor is he freed from the perils pertaining to the life to come; therefore 'peril' is a designation of sensual pleasures. And why, bhikkhus, is 'suffering' ... 'disease' ... 'boil' ... 'tie' ... 'mire' a designation of sensual pleasures? One impassioned by lust for sensual pleasures, bound by desire and lust, is not freed even from the mire pertaining to this present life, nor is he freed from the mire pertaining to the life to come; therefore 'mire' is a designation of sensual pleasures."
Peril, suffering, and disease,
tie and mire — both of these:
these are called sensual pleasures,
wherein the worldling is attached.
Having seen the peril in clinging (upādāna),
the origin of birth and death,
they are liberated through non-clinging
in the destruction of birth and death.
They, attained to security, happy,
quenched in this very life,
have all passed beyond enmity and peril
and have overcome all suffering.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.