mn75:13.1 Suppose there was a person affected by leprosy, with sores and blisters on their limbs. Being devoured by worms, scratching with their nails at the opening of their wounds, they’d cauterize their body over a pit of glowing coals.
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mn75:13.2 Their friends and colleagues, relatives and kin would get a surgeon to treat them.
mn75:13.3 The surgeon would make medicine for them,
mn75:13.4 and by using that they’d be cured of leprosy. They’d be healthy, happy, autonomous, master of themselves, able to go where they wanted.
mn75:13.5 Then they’d see another person affected by leprosy, with sores and blisters on their limbs, being devoured by worms, scratching with their nails at the opening of their wounds, cauterizing their body over a pit of glowing coals.
mn75:13.6 What do you think, Māgaṇḍiya?
mn75:13.7 Would that person envy that other person affected by leprosy for their pit of glowing coals or for taking medicine?”
mn75:13.8 “No, worthy Gotama.
mn75:13.9 Why is that?
mn75:13.10 Because you need to take medicine only when there’s a disease. When there’s no disease, there’s no need for medicine.”