mn29:5.1 Next, take a gentleman who has gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness …
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mn29:5.4 When they’ve gone forth they generate possessions, honor, and popularity. …
mn29:5.14 Being diligent, they achieve knowledge and vision.
mn29:5.15 They’re happy with that, and they’ve got all they wished for.
mn29:5.16 And they glorify themselves and put others down on account of that,
mn29:5.17 ‘I’m the one who meditates knowing and seeing.
mn29:5.18 These other mendicants meditate without knowing and seeing.’
mn29:5.19 And so they become indulgent and fall into negligence regarding that knowledge and vision. And being negligent they live in suffering.
mn29:5.20 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, he’d cut out the softwood and leave imagining it was heartwood.
mn29:5.21 If a person with clear eyes saw him they’d say,
mn29:5.22 ‘This gentleman doesn’t know what heartwood, softwood, bark, shoots, or branches and leaves are.
mn29:5.23 That’s why he passed them over, cut out the softwood, and left imagining it was heartwood.
mn29:5.24 Whatever he needs to make from heartwood, he won’t succeed.’ …
mn29:5.42 This is called a mendicant who has grabbed the softwood of the spiritual life
mn29:5.43 and stopped short with that.