mn64:3.1 “Who on earth do you remember being taught the five lower fetters in that way?
mn64:3.2 Wouldn’t the wanderers of other religions fault you using the simile of the infant?
mn64:3.3 For a little baby doesn’t even have a concept of ‘substantial reality’, so how could substantialist view possibly arise in them?
mn64:3.4 Yet the underlying tendency to substantialist view still lies within them.
mn64:3.5 A little baby doesn’t even have a concept of ‘teachings’, so how could doubt about the teachings possibly arise in them?
mn64:3.6 Yet the underlying tendency to doubt still lies within them.
mn64:3.7 A little baby doesn’t even have a concept of ‘precepts’, so how could misapprehension of precepts and observances possibly arise in them?
mn64:3.8 Yet the underlying tendency to misapprehension of precepts and observances still lies within them.
mn64:3.9 A little baby doesn’t even have a concept of ‘sensual pleasures’, so how could desire for sensual pleasures possibly arise in them?
mn64:3.10 Yet the underlying tendency to sensual desire still lies within them.
mn64:3.11 A little baby doesn’t even have a concept of ‘sentient beings’, so how could ill will for sentient beings possibly arise in them?
mn64:3.12 Yet the underlying tendency to ill will still lies within them.
mn64:3.13 Wouldn’t the wanderers of other religions fault you using the simile of the infant?”