touched, the one who touches another –like an arrow smeared with poison– contaminates the quiver. So, fearing contamination, the enlightened should not be comrades with evil people. A man who wraps rotting fish in a blade of kusa grass makes the grass smelly: so it is if you seek out fools. But a man who wraps powdered incense in the leaf of a tree makes the leaf fragrant: so it is if you seek out the enlightened. So, knowing your own outcome as like the leaf-wrapperâs, you shouldnât seek out those who arenât good. The wise would associate with those who are. Those who arenât good lead you to hell. The good help you reach a good destination. See also: AN 8:54; AN 9:1; Ud 4:1 - --> - - - -