mn85:19.1 Then a third example occurred to me.
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mn85:19.2 Suppose there was a dried up, withered log, and it was lying on dry land far from the water.
mn85:19.3 Then a person comes along with a drill-stick, thinking
mn85:19.4 to light a fire and produce heat.
mn85:19.5 What do you think, Prince?
mn85:19.6 By drilling the stick against that dried up, withered log on dry land far from water, could they light a fire and produce heat?”
mn85:19.7 “Yes, sir.
mn85:19.8 Why is that?
mn85:19.9 Because it’s a dried up, withered log, and it’s lying on dry land far from water.”
mn85:19.10 “In the same way, there are ascetics and brahmins who live withdrawn in body and mind from sensual pleasures. And they have internally given up and 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 capable of knowledge and vision, of supreme awakening.
mn85:19.13 This was the third example that occurred to me.
mn85:19.14 These are the three similes, which were neither supernaturally inspired, nor learned before in the past, that occurred to me.