Shake Off the Dust
SN 9.1 Viveka Sutta: Seclusion
A bhikkhu has many unwholesome thoughts that ‘gush outwardly’. A devata comes to him and says:
“remove the desire for people, then you’ll be happy”
“abandon discontent and be mindful”
“Just as a bird littered with soil
with a shake flicks off the sticky dust,
so a bhikkhu, strenuous and mindful,
with a shake flicks off the sticky dust”