[752] **"Laziness, deceit, laughter, play, sexual intercourse together with adornment — these he should abandon."**
**"Laziness (tandi)"**: whatever laziness there is — being lazy, the state of being lazy, mental laziness, indolence, being indolent, the state of being indolent — this is called laziness.
**"Deceit (māyā)"**: deceptive conduct is called deceit. Here someone, having engaged in misconduct by body, having engaged in misconduct by speech, having engaged in misconduct by mind, for the sake of concealing it conceives an evil wish: he wishes, "May no one know me"; he intends, "May no one know me"; he utters speech, "May no one know me"; he makes effort with the body, "May no one know me." Whatever of such a kind is deceit, deceitfulness, beguiling, deception, fraud, trickery, evasion, dodging, hiding, concealing, covering, covering up, not making plain, not disclosing, cloaking over, evil-doing — this is called deceit.
**"Laughter (hasa)"**: here someone laughs excessively, displaying his teeth. For this was said by the Blessed One: "Bhikkhus, this is childishness in the discipline of the Noble One, namely, excessive laughter that displays the teeth."
**"Play (khiḍḍā)"**: there are two kinds of play — bodily play and verbal play.
What is bodily play? They play with elephants, they play with horses, they play with chariots, they play with bows; they play checkers on boards of eight rows, they play on boards of ten rows, they play on imaginary boards in the air, they play at stepping on diagrams (hopscotch), they play at spillikins, they play at dice, they play at tip-cat, they play at painting with the hand, they play at ball games, they play at blowing through toy pipes made of leaves, they play with toy plows, they play at turning somersaults, they play with toy windmills, they play with toy measures, they play with toy chariots, they play with toy bows, they play at guessing letters, they play at guessing thoughts, they play at mimicking deformities. This is bodily play.
What is verbal play? Beating a drum with the mouth, playing a lute with the mouth, making drum-rolls with the mouth, whistling with the mouth, clacking with the mouth, making piping sounds with the mouth, dramatic recitation, ballad-singing, song, and jesting. This is verbal play.
**"Sexual intercourse (methunadhamma)"** is that practice which is not the practice of the true Dhamma (asaddhamma), the practice of villagers, the practice of the vile, that which is coarse, ending with an ablution of water, done in secret, the coming together of two and two. For what reason is it called methunadhamma (the practice of a pair)? It is the practice of two who are lustful, impassioned, oozing with lust, obsessed, whose minds (citta) are overpowered — of two who are alike; for that reason it is called the practice of a pair. Just as two who make a quarrel, two who make a brawl, two who make an altercation, two who make a dispute, two who make a legal issue, two disputants, and two conversing together are called "a pair (methunakā)," even so it is the practice of two who are lustful, impassioned, oozing with lust, obsessed, whose minds are overpowered — of two who are alike; for that reason it is called the practice of a pair.
**"Adornment (vibhūsā)"**: there are two kinds of adornment — the adornment of a householder and the adornment of one gone forth.
What is the adornment of a householder? Hair and beard, garlands, scents, unguents, ornaments, decorations, garments, finery, headdress, anointing, massaging, bathing, shampooing, a mirror, eye-salve, garlands and unguents, face-powder, face-cream, bracelets for the wrist, a band for the topknot, a staff, an ornamental tube, a sword, a parasol, embroidered sandals, a turban, a gem, a yak-tail whisk, white garments with long fringes — such is the adornment of a householder.
What is the adornment of one gone forth? Adorning the robe, adorning the bowl; or the adorning, embellishing, sporting with, toying with, greed for, the state of being greedy over, fickleness about, and vanity regarding this putrid body or the external requisites — this is the adornment of one gone forth.
**"Laziness, deceit, laughter, play, sexual intercourse together with adornment — these he should abandon"**: laziness, deceit, laughter, play, and sexual intercourse — together with its adornment, together with its retinue, together with its appurtenances, together with its accessories — one should abandon, dispel, make an end of, and bring to nonexistence. Therefore it is said: "Laziness, deceit, laughter, play, sexual intercourse together with adornment — these he should abandon." Hence the Blessed One said:
One should not indulge in much sleep;
ardent, one should devote oneself to wakefulness;
laziness, deceit, laughter, play,
and sexual intercourse together with adornment — these one should abandon.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.