mn89:12.1 Furthermore, I have walked and wandered from monastery to monastery and from park to park.
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mn89:12.2 There I’ve seen some ascetics and brahmins who are thin, haggard, pale, and veiny—hardly a captivating sight for people, you’d think.
mn89:12.3 It occurred to me:
mn89:12.4 ‘Clearly these venerables lead the spiritual life dissatisfied, or they’re hiding some bad deed they’ve done.
mn89:12.5 That’s why they’re thin, haggard, pale, and veiny—hardly a captivating sight for people, you’d think.’
mn89:12.6 I went up to them and said:
mn89:12.7 ‘Venerables, why are you so thin, haggard, pale, and veiny—hardly a captivating sight for people, you’d think?’
mn89:12.8 They say:
mn89:12.9 ‘We have jaundice, Great King.’
mn89:12.10 But here I see mendicants always smiling and joyful, obviously happy, with cheerful faces, living relaxed, unruffled, surviving on charity, their hearts free as a wild deer.
mn89:12.11 It occurred to me:
mn89:12.12 ‘Clearly these venerables have realized a higher distinction in the Buddha’s instructions than they had before.
mn89:12.13 That’s why these venerables are always smiling and joyful, obviously happy, with cheerful faces, living relaxed, unruffled, surviving on charity, their hearts free as a wild deer.’
mn89:12.14 So I infer this about the Buddha from the teaching:
mn89:12.15 ‘The Blessed One is a fully awakened Buddha. The teaching is well explained. The Saṅgha is practicing well.’