When your eyes and ears are unguarded, and you’re not restrained in your sense faculties, flies—those lustful thoughts—will plague you.
A mendicant who’s bitter, festering with putrefaction, is far from being extinguished, distress is their lot.
Whether in village or wilderness, if they don’t find serenity in themselves, the fool, the simpleton departs, honored only by flies.
But those who have ethics, lovers of wisdom and peace, they, being peaceful, sleep at ease, since they’ve got rid of the flies.”
Numbered Discourses 3.129 13. Kusinārā With Anuruddha (1st)
Then Venerable Anuruddha went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sometimes, sir, with my clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, I see that females—when their body breaks up, after death—are mostly reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. How many qualities do ladies have so that they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell?”