mn35:22.1 “Suppose, Aggivessana, there was a person in need of heartwood. Wandering in search of heartwood, they’d take a sharp axe and enter a forest.
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mn35:22.2 There they’d see a big banana trunk, straight and young and grown unskewed.
mn35:22.3 They’d cut it down at the base, cut off the top, and unroll the coiled sheaths.
mn35:22.4 But they wouldn’t even find sapwood, much less heartwood.
mn35:22.5 In the same way, when pursued, pressed, and grilled by me on your own doctrine, you turn out to be vacuous, hollow, and mistaken.
mn35:22.6 But it was you who stated before the assembly of Vesālī:
mn35:22.7 ‘I don’t see any ascetic or brahmin who would not shake and rock and tremble, sweating from the armpits, were I to take them on in debate—not a leader of an order or a community, or the tutor of a community, and not even one who claims to be a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha.
mn35:22.8 Even an insentient post would shake and rock and tremble were I to take it on in debate.
mn35:22.9 How much more then a human being!’
mn35:22.10 But sweat is pouring from your forehead; it’s soaked through your robe and drips on the ground.
mn35:22.11 While I now have no sweat on my body.”
mn35:22.12 So the Buddha revealed his golden body to the assembly.
mn35:22.13 When this was said, Saccaka sat silent, dismayed, shoulders drooping, downcast, depressed, with nothing to say.