It were a good thing if the sense organs were seared with a red-
It were a good thing to be asleep, for then the mind would not be applied to evil ends.
However, it were better to ponder on the impermanence of the sense organs, their sensations, the consciousness and the contacts connected with them and all that has to do with the mind, because that pondering would produce repulsion and dispassion, freedom and realisation of freedom. S.iv.168 f.