mn75:21.1 “In the same way, the wanderers of other religions are blind and sightless. Not knowing health and not seeing extinguishment, they still recite this verse:
mn75:21.2 ‘Health is the ultimate blessing; extinguishment, the ultimate happiness.’
mn75:21.3 For this verse was recited by the perfected ones, fully awakened Buddhas of the past:
mn75:21.4 ‘Health is the ultimate blessing;
mn75:21.5 extinguishment, the ultimate happiness.
mn75:21.6 Of paths, the ultimate is eightfold—
mn75:21.7 it’s safe, and leads to freedom from death.’
mn75:21.8 These days it has gradually become a verse used by ordinary people.
mn75:21.9 But Māgaṇḍiya, this body is a disease, a boil, a dart, a gloom, an affliction. Yet you say of this body:
mn75:21.10 ‘This is that health, this is that extinguishment!’
mn75:21.11 Māgaṇḍiya, you don’t have the noble vision by which you might know health and see extinguishment.”