mn29:3.1 Next, take a gentleman who has gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness …
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mn29:3.4 When they’ve gone forth they generate possessions, honor, and popularity.
mn29:3.5 They’re not happy with that, and haven’t got all they wished for.
mn29:3.6 They don’t glorify themselves and put others down on account of that.
mn29:3.7 Nor do they become indulgent and fall into negligence on account of those possessions, honor, and popularity.
mn29:3.8 Being diligent, they achieve accomplishment in ethics.
mn29:3.9 They’re happy with that, and they’ve got all they wished for.
mn29:3.10 And they glorify themselves and put others down on account of that:
mn29:3.11 ‘I’m the one who is ethical, of good character. These other mendicants are unethical, of bad character.’
mn29:3.12 And so they become indulgent and fall into negligence regarding their accomplishment in ethics. And being negligent they live in suffering.
mn29:3.13 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, and bark, he’d cut off the shoots and leave imagining they were heartwood.
mn29:3.14 If a person with clear eyes saw him they’d say,
mn29:3.15 ‘This gentleman doesn’t know what heartwood, softwood, bark, shoots, or branches and leaves are.
mn29:3.16 That’s why he passed them over, cut off the shoots, and left imagining they were heartwood.
mn29:3.17 Whatever he needs to make from heartwood, he won’t succeed.’ …