mn85:18.1 Then a second example occurred to me.
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mn85:18.2 Suppose there was a green, sappy log, and it was lying on dry land far from the water.
mn85:18.3 Then a person comes along with a drill-stick, thinking
mn85:18.4 to light a fire and produce heat.
mn85:18.5 What do you think, Prince?
mn85:18.6 By drilling the stick against that green, sappy log on dry land far from water, could they light a fire and produce heat?”
mn85:18.7 “No, sir.
mn85:18.8 Why is that?
mn85:18.9 Because it’s still a green, sappy log, despite the fact that it’s lying on dry land far from water.
mn85:18.10 That person will eventually get weary and frustrated.”
mn85:18.11 “In the same way, there are ascetics and brahmins who live withdrawn in body and mind from sensual pleasures. But they haven’t internally given up or stilled desire, affection, infatuation, thirst, and passion for sensual pleasures. Regardless of whether or not they suffer painful, sharp, severe, acute feelings due to exertion, they are incapable of knowledge and vision, of supreme awakening.
mn85:18.14 This was the second example that occurred to me.