mn61:7.1 Suppose there was a royal bull elephant with tusks like draft-poles, able to draw a heavy load, pedigree and battle-hardened. In battle it uses its fore-feet and hind-feet, its fore-quarters and hind-quarters, its head, ears, tusks, and tail, but it still protects its trunk.
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mn61:7.2 So its rider thinks:
mn61:7.3 ‘This royal bull elephant still protects its trunk.
mn61:7.4 It has not yet given its life.’
mn61:7.5 But when that royal bull elephant … in battle uses its fore-feet and hind-feet, its fore-quarters and hind-quarters, its head, ears, tusks, and tail, and its trunk, its rider thinks:
mn61:7.6 ‘This royal bull elephant … in battle uses its fore-feet and hind-feet, its fore-quarters and hind-quarters, its head, ears, tusks, and tail, and its trunk.
mn61:7.7 It has given its life.
mn61:7.8 Now there is nothing that royal bull elephant would not do.’
mn61:7.9 In the same way, when someone is not ashamed to tell a deliberate lie, there is no bad deed they would not do, I say.
mn61:7.10 So you should train like this: ‘I will not tell a lie, even for a joke.’