Friends:

Venerable Mahamoggallana's Theragathas on the Body:

1150. You ragged shed made of a chain of bones, sewn together
with flesh and sinews. Fie upon you evil-smelling body worshipping
those who have another's limbs.

1151. You bag of shit, tied up with skin, you demon with lumps on
your chest. Nine holes is there in you body, streaming with disgust.

1152. You body, with your nine oozing holes, makes an evil smell and
is all obstipated by dung. Any Bhikkhu desiring purity avoids this as
one avoids any stinking heap of rotten excrement.

1153. If any person knew you, as I know you, he would avoid you,
keeping far away, as one avoids a toilet-pit in the rainy season.

1154. This is so, Great Hero, as you say, Ascetic and here many
sink down as an old drowning bull in deep, wet, and fatal mud...!!!

1157. See this painted puppet, a heap of sores, a constructed form,
diseased, decaying, falling apart, with many evil intentions, of no
permanent stability, nor safety...

         In whomever such Awareness of the body as a dangerous and disgusting trap
         is not developed, not pursued, Mara gains entry, Mara gains a foothold...
         These 'body-lovers' becomes Mara's - the Evil Ones' - friends and soldiers:
         Not knowing, not seeing Suffering - the 1st Truth - they run about claiming:
         Body is beautiful, form is happiness, there is neither sickness, decay, ageing
         nor any death! When Mara contacts them, they say: Come on in Sir, touch me!,
         it will be my honour and pleasure ... Because of this false & wrong view, such
         feverish 'body-lovers' share a future painful destiny with Mara - the Evil One! 
 

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Updated: 13 Aug 2007 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_smelling_body.htm