mn45:4.1 Suppose that in the last month of summer a camel’s foot creeper pod were to burst open
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mn45:4.2 and a seed were to fall at the root of a sal tree.
mn45:4.3 Then the deity haunting that sal tree would become apprehensive and nervous.
mn45:4.4 But their friends and colleagues, relatives and kin—deities of the parks, forests, trees, and those who haunt the herbs, grass, and big trees—would come together to reassure them,
mn45:4.5 ‘Do not fear, sir, do not fear!
mn45:4.6 Hopefully that seed will be swallowed by a peacock, or eaten by a deer, or burnt by a forest fire, or picked up by a lumberjack, or eaten by termites, or it may not even be fertile.’
mn45:4.7 But none of these things happened. And the seed was fertile, so that when the monsoon clouds soaked it with rain, it sprouted.
mn45:4.8 And the creeper wound its tender, soft, and downy tendrils around that sal tree.
mn45:4.9 Then the deity thought,
mn45:4.10 ‘What future danger did my friends see when they said:
mn45:4.11 “Do not fear, sir, do not fear!
mn45:4.12 Hopefully that seed will be swallowed by a peacock, or eaten by a deer, or burnt by a forest fire, or picked up by a lumberjack, or eaten by termites, or it may not even be fertile.”
mn45:4.13 Pleasant is the touch of this creeper’s tender, soft, and downy tendrils.’
mn45:4.14 Then the creeper enfolded the sal tree,
mn45:4.15 made a canopy over it,
mn45:4.16 draped a curtain around it,
mn45:4.17 and split apart all the main branches.
mn45:4.18 Then the deity thought,
mn45:4.19 ‘This is the future danger that my friends saw!
mn45:4.21 It’s because of that camel’s foot creeper seed that I’m feeling painful, sharp, severe, acute feelings.’
mn45:4.22 In the same way, there are some ascetics and brahmins who have this doctrine and view: ‘There’s nothing wrong with sensual pleasures’ …
mn45:4.34 This is called the way of taking up practices that is pleasant now but results in future pain.