mn90:12.1 “What the Buddha says appears reasonable.
mn90:12.2 Sir, there are these four classes:
mn90:12.3 aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and workers.
mn90:12.4 If they had these five factors that support meditation, and if they practiced rightly,
mn90:12.5 would there be any difference between them?”
mn90:12.6 “In that case, I say that there is no difference between the freedom of one and the freedom of the other.
mn90:12.7 Suppose a person took dry teak wood and lit a fire and produced heat.
mn90:12.8 Then another person did the same using sāl wood,
mn90:12.9 another used mango wood,
mn90:12.10 while another used wood of the cluster fig.
mn90:12.11 What do you think, Great King?
mn90:12.12 Would there be any difference between the fires produced by these different kinds of wood, that is, in the flame, color, or luminosity?”
mn90:12.13 “No, sir.”
mn90:12.14 “In the same way, when fire has been churned by energy and produced by effort, I say that there is no difference between the freedom of one and the freedom of the other.”