mn29:2.1 “Mendicants, take the case of a gentleman who has gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness, thinking,
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mn29:2.2 ‘I’m swamped by rebirth, old age, and death; by sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. I’m swamped by suffering, mired in suffering.
mn29:2.3 Hopefully I can make an end to this entire mass of suffering.’
mn29:2.4 When they’ve gone forth they generate possessions, honor, and popularity.
mn29:2.5 They’re happy with that, and they’ve got all they wished for.
mn29:2.6 And they glorify themselves and put others down because of that:
mn29:2.7 ‘I’m the one with possessions, honor, and popularity. These other mendicants are obscure and insignificant.’
mn29:2.8 And so they become indulgent and fall into negligence on account of those possessions, honor, and popularity. And being negligent they live in suffering.
mn29:2.9 Suppose there was a person in need of heartwood. And while wandering in search of heartwood he’d come across a large tree standing with heartwood. But, passing over the heartwood, softwood, bark, and shoots, he’d cut off the branches and leaves and leave imagining they were heartwood.
mn29:2.10 If a person with clear eyes saw him they’d say,
mn29:2.11 ‘This gentleman doesn’t know what heartwood, softwood, bark, shoots, or branches and leaves are.
mn29:2.12 That’s why he passed them over, cut off the branches and leaves, and left imagining they were heartwood.
mn29:2.13 Whatever he needs to make from heartwood, he won’t succeed.’ …
mn29:2.21 This is called a mendicant who has grabbed the branches and leaves of the spiritual life
mn29:2.22 and stopped short with that.