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THE TREASURE OF RIGHT CONDUCT
51. He should not tell anything to a householder relating to stars, dreams, magic, prognostication, spells and medicine for they are a source of injury to creatures.
52. He should select a house that has been built for another, is furnished with a sleeping board and a seat, has got a latrine and is free from women and animals.
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53. His bed should be in a lonely place. He should not have a talk on women. He should enltivate intimacy with monks and not with householders.
54. Just as a young cock has always fear from a kulala bird, so has a celebate monk fear from a woman's body.
55. He should not gaze at a painted wall or at a well-adorned woman. Seeing them, he should immediately take his eye away from them as if from the sun.
56. A celebate monk should avoid a woman even if her hands and feet be mutilated, her ears and nose cut off; and even if she were a hundred years old.
57. Adorning the body, company with women and delicious and greasy food are like Tálaputa poison (yellow arsenic) for one who seeks spiritual welfare.
58. He should neither peep into the configuration of limbs and minor limbs of women, nor mark their amorous talk and glances for that kindles the feeling of love.
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