Renouncing violence for all living beings, harming not even a one, you would not wish for offspring, so how a companion?
Wander alone like a rhinoceros.
For a sociable person there are allurements; on the heels of allurement, this pain. Seeing allurement's drawback, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
One whose mind is enmeshed in sympathy for friends and companions, neglects the true goal. Seeing this danger in intimacy, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Like spreading bamboo, entwined, is concern for offspring and spouses. Like a bamboo sprout, un-entangling, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
As a deer in the wilds, unfettered, goes for forage wherever it wants: the wise person, valuing freedom, wanders alone
like a rhinoceros.
In the midst of companions -- when staying at home,
when going out wandering-- you are prey to requests.
Valuing the freedom wander alone like a rhinoceros.
There is sporting and love in the midst of companions,
and abundant fondness for offspring. Feeling disgust at the prospect of parting from those who'd be dear, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Without resistance in all four directions, content with whatever you get, enduring troubles with no dismay, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
They are hard to please, some of those gone forth, as well as those living the household life. Shedding concern for these offspring of others, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Cutting off the householder's marks, [1] like a kovilara tree
that has shed its leaves, the prudent one, cutting all household ties, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
If you gain a mature companion, a fellow traveler, right living and wise, overcoming all dangers go with him, gratified,
mindful.
If you don't gain a mature companion, a fellow traveler, right-living and wise, wander alone like a king renouncing his kingdom, like the elephant in the Matanga wilds, his herd.
We praise companionship -- yes!
Those on a par, or better, should be chosen as friends. If they're not to be found, living faultlessly, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Seeing radiant bracelets of gold, well made by a smith, clinking, clashing, two on an arm, wander alone like a rhinoceros,
[Thinking:]
"In the same way, if I were to live with another, there would be careless talk or abusive." Seeing this future danger, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Because sensual pleasures, elegant, honeyed, and charming,
bewitch the mind with their manifold forms -- seeing this drawback in sensual strands -- wander alone like a rhinoceros.
"Calamity, tumor, misfortune, disease, an arrow, a danger for me." Seeing this danger in sensual strands, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Cold and heat, hunger and thirst, wind and sun, horseflies and snakes: enduring all these, without exception, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
As a great white elephant, with massive shoulders, renouncing his herd, lives in the wilds wherever he wants,
wander alone like a rhinoceros.
"There's no way that one delighting in company can touch even momentary release." Heeding the Solar Kinsman's words, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Transcending the contortion of views, the sure way attained,
the path gained, [realizing:] "Un-led by others,
I have knowledge arisen," wander alone like a rhinoceros.
With no greed, no deceit, no thirst, no hypocrisy -- delusion and blemishes blown away -- with no inclinations for all the world, every world, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Avoid the evil companion disregarding the goal, intent on the out-of-tune way. Don't take as a friend someone heedless and hankering. Wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Consort with one who is learned, who maintains the Dhamma,
a great and quick-witted friend. Knowing the meanings, subdue your perplexity, [then] wander alone like a rhinoceros,
Free from longing, finding no pleasure in the world's sport, love, or sensual bliss, abstaining from adornment, speaking the truth, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Abandoning offspring, spouse, father, mother, riches, grain, relatives, and sensual pleasures altogether, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
"This is a bondage, a baited hook. There's little happiness here, next to no satisfaction, all the more suffering and pain."
Knowing this, circumspect, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Shattering fetters, like a fish in the water tearing a net,
like a fire not coming back to what's burnt, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Eyes downcast, not footloose, senses guarded, with protected mind, not oozing -- not burning -- with lust, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Taking off the householder's marks, [2] like a coral tree that has shed its leaves, going forth in the ochre robe, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Showing no greed for flavors, not careless, going from house to house for alms, with mind un-enmeshed in this family or that, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Abandoning barriers to awareness, expelling all defilements -- all -- non-dependent, cutting aversion, allurement, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Turning your back on pleasure and pain, as earlier with sorrow and joy, attaining pure equanimity, tranquility,
wander alone like a rhinoceros.
With persistence aroused for the highest goal's attainment,
with mind un-smeared, not lazy in action, firm in effort, with steadfastness and strength arisen, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Not neglecting seclusion, absorption, constantly living the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma, comprehending the danger in states of becoming, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Intent on the ending of craving and heedful, learned, mindful, not muddled, certain -- having reckoned the Dhamma --
and striving, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Un-startled, like a lion at sounds. Un-snared, like the wind in a net. Un-smeared, like a lotus in water: wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Like a lion -- forceful, strong in fang, living as a conqueror, the king of beasts -- resort to a solitary dwelling. Wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
At the right time consorting with the release through good will,
compassion, appreciation, equanimity, unobstructed by all the world, any world, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
Having let go of passion, aversion, delusion; having hattered the fetters; undisturbed at the ending of life, wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
People follow and associate for a motive. Friends without a motive these days are rare. They're shrewd for their own ends, and impure. Wander alone like a rhinoceros.