sn35.246:4.1 Suppose a king or their chief minister had never heard the sound of an arched harp.
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sn35.246:4.2 When he first hears the sound,
sn35.246:4.3 he’d say,
sn35.246:4.4 ‘Oh my, what is making this sound, so arousing, sensuous, intoxicating, infatuating, and captivating?’
sn35.246:4.5 They’d say to him,
sn35.246:4.6 ‘That, sir, is an arched harp.’
sn35.246:4.7 He’d say,
sn35.246:4.8 ‘Go, worthy sir, fetch me that arched harp.’
sn35.246:4.9 So they’d fetch it
sn35.246:4.10 and say,
sn35.246:4.11 ‘This, sir, is that arched harp.’
sn35.246:4.12 He’d say,
sn35.246:4.13 ‘I’ve had enough of that arched harp! Just fetch me the sound.’
sn35.246:4.14 They’d say,
sn35.246:4.15 ‘Sir, this arched harp is made of many components assembled together,
sn35.246:4.16 which make a sound when they’re played. That is,
sn35.246:4.17 it depends on the soundbox, the leather resonator, the neck, the tuning cords, the strings, the plectrum, and a person to play it properly. That’s how an arched harp is made of many components assembled together,
sn35.246:4.18 which make a sound when they’re played.’
sn35.246:4.19 But he’d split that harp into ten pieces or a hundred pieces, then splinter it up.
sn35.246:4.20 He’d burn the splinters with fire, and reduce them to ashes.
sn35.246:4.21 Then he’d whisk away the ashes in a strong wind, or glide them down a swift stream.
sn35.246:4.22 Then he’d say,
sn35.246:4.23 ‘It seems that there’s nothing to this thing called an arched harp or whatever’s called an arched harp! But people waste their time with it, negligent and heedless!’
sn35.246:4.24 In the same way, a mendicant searches for form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness anywhere they might be reborn.
sn35.246:4.25 As they search in this way,
sn35.246:4.29 their ideas of ‘I’ or ‘mine’ or ‘I am’ are no more.”