Kongpo Lama
Yeshe Tsondru
(1761 – 1816)
“Extreme attachment to sensual pleasures, in short, is like constantly drinking salt water: with no satisfaction, you’re always in torment, so what chance of happiness is there in it? Since the elephant, mind, is hopelessly drunk with the maddening liquor of sensual desire, there’s minimal chance of taming it with the soothing hook of the holy Dharma.”
From The Essence of Nectar – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Kongpo Lama Yeshe Tsondru as published in The Essential Nectar: Meditations on the Buddhist Path by Geshe Rabten. Edited and verse translation by Martin Wilson. Wisdom Publications (currently out of print).