mn100:14.1 And then these three similes, which were neither supernaturally inspired, nor learned before in the past, occurred to me.
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mn100:14.2 Suppose there was a green, sappy log, and it was lying in water.
mn100:14.3 Then a person comes along with a drill-stick, thinking
mn100:14.4 to light a fire and produce heat.
mn100:14.5 What do you think, Bhāradvāja?
mn100:14.6 By drilling the stick against that green, sappy log lying in water, could they light a fire and produce heat?”
mn100:14.7 “No, worthy Gotama.
mn100:14.8 Why is that?
mn100:14.9 Because it’s a green, sappy log, and it’s lying in the water.
mn100:14.10 That person will eventually get weary and frustrated.”
mn100:14.11 “In the same way, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t live withdrawn in body and mind from sensual pleasures. They haven’t internally given up or stilled desire, affection, infatuation, thirst, and passion for sensual pleasures. Regardless of whether or not they suffer painful, sharp, severe, acute feelings due to exertion, they are incapable of knowledge and vision, of supreme awakening.
mn100:14.12 This was the first example that occurred to me.