"Suppose there were a maiden of the noble caste, the brahman caste, or the householder class,
fifteen or sixteen years old, neither too tall nor too short, neither too thin nor too plump, neither too dark nor too pale. Is her beauty & charm at that time at its height?"
"Yes, lord."
"And what is the drawback of forms? There is the case where one might see
that very same woman at a
later time, when she's
eighty, ninety, one hundred years old: aged, roof-rafter crooked, bent-over, supported by a cane, palsied, miserable, broken-toothed, gray-haired, scanty-haired, bald, wrinkled, her body all blotchy. What do you think: Has her earlier beauty & charm vanished, and the drawback appeared?"
"Yes, lord."
"This, monks, is the drawback of forms.
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