mn101:7.1 Suppose a man was struck by an arrow thickly smeared with poison,
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mn101:7.2 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.3 Their friends and colleagues, relatives and kin would get a surgeon to treat them.
mn101:7.4 The surgeon would cut open the wound with a scalpel,
mn101:7.5 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.6 They’d probe for the arrow,
mn101:7.7 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.8 They’d extract the arrow,
mn101:7.9 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.10 They’d apply cauterizing medicine to the wound,
mn101:7.11 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.12 After some time that wound would be healed and the skin regrown. They’d be healthy, happy, autonomous, master of themselves, able to go where they wanted.
mn101:7.13 They’d think,
mn101:7.14 “Earlier I was struck by an arrow thickly smeared with poison,
mn101:7.15 causing painful feelings, sharp and severe.
mn101:7.16 My friends and colleagues, relatives and kin got a surgeon to treat me.
mn101:7.17 At each step, the treatment was painful.
mn101:7.25 But these days that wound is healed and the skin regrown. I’m healthy, happy, autonomous, my own master, able to go where I want.”