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3.3 (enjoying 5kg is like leper enjoying picking scab 🐛🪱 and cauterizing, pleasurable but harmful)
Seyyathāpi, māgaṇḍiya, kuṭṭhī puriso arugatto pakkagatto kimīhi khajjamāno nakhehi vaṇamukhāni vippatacchamāno aṅgārakāsuyā kāyaṃ paritāpeti. | Suppose there was a person affected by leprosy, with sores and blisters on their limbs. Being devoured by worms, scratching with their nails at the opening of their wounds, they’re cauterizing their body over a pit of glowing coals. |
Yathā yathā kho, māgaṇḍiya, asu kuṭṭhī puriso arugatto pakkagatto kimīhi khajjamāno nakhehi vaṇamukhāni vippatacchamāno aṅgārakāsuyā kāyaṃ paritāpeti tathā tathāssa tāni vaṇamukhāni asucitarāni ceva honti duggandhatarāni ca pūtikatarāni ca, hoti ceva kāci sātamattā assādamattā—yadidaṃ vaṇamukhānaṃ kaṇḍūvanahetu; | The more they scratch their wounds and cauterize their body, the more their wounds become foul, stinking, and infected. But still, they derive a degree of pleasure and gratification from the itchiness of their wounds. |
(beings enjoying sensual pleasures are like that leper scratching wound)
evameva kho, māgaṇḍiya, | In the same way, |
sattā kāmesu a-vīta-rāgā | I see other sentient beings who are not free from sensual pleasures |
Kāma-taṇhāhi khajjamānā | being consumed by craving for sensual pleasures, |
kāma-pariḷāhena ca pariḍayhamānā | burning with passion for sensual pleasures, |
kāme paṭisevanti. | indulging in sensual pleasures. |
Yathā yathā kho, māgaṇḍiya, sattā kāmesu avītarāgā kāmataṇhāhi khajjamānā kāmapariḷāhena ca pariḍayhamānā kāme paṭisevanti | (…regarding those burning in that way...) |
tathā tathā tesaṃ tesaṃ | The more they indulge in sensual pleasures (...in that way…), |
sattānaṃ kāma-taṇhā ceva pavaḍḍhati, | the more their craving for sensual pleasures grows, |
kāma-pariḷāhena ca pariḍayhanti, | and the more they burn with passion ❤️🔥 for sensual pleasures. |
hoti ceva sāta-mattā assāda-mattā— | But still, they derive a degree of pleasure and gratification |
yadidaṃ pañca-kāma-guṇe paṭicca. | from the five kinds of sensual stimulation. |
Links to Full sutta text in pāḷi and english
MN 751 (brahmins have conversation about Buddha)
MN 751.2 (magandiya calls Buddha a ‘life destroyer’)
MN 752 (Buddha overhears conversation with divine ear, while in jhāna retreat)
MN 752.1 (magandiya joins conversation to discuss ‘life destroying’)
MN 752.2 (Buddha talks about gratification, danger, escape, dispassion and peace, Magandiya approves)
MN 752.3 (Buddha’s previous luxurious 5kg pleasures in lay life)
MN 752.4 (Buddha’s doesn’t miss or envy that because he has divine pleasures of jhāna ↔ simile gods with their pleasures don’t envy rich humans)
MN 752.4.1 (simile gods with their pleasures don’t envy humans)
MN 753 (simile of leper)
MN 753.1 (simile: would cured leper be jealous of uncured leper?)
MN 753.2 (cured leper wouldn’t want to go back to cauterizing fire ↔ simile: strong man drags them back, they’d struggle)
MN 753.3 (enjoying 5kg is like leper enjoying picking scab and cauterizing, pleasurable but harmful)
MN 754 (can a king enjoy 5kg and have mind of peace?)
MN 754.1 (Buddha’s verse on nirvana being ultimate happiness)
MN 754.2 (Magandiya misinterprets Buddha’s verse)
MN 754.3 (simile of blind man and white cloth being cheated)
MN 754.4 (blind man had blind faith in cheater, rather than knowing and seeing for himself)
MN 754.5 (Surgeon tries to cure blind man but fail)
MN 754.5.1 (Buddha compares himself to surgeon, wondering if it’s worth trouble to teach magandiya)
MN 754.8 (blind man cured by surgeon, personally knows and sees the cheater was lying)
MN 754.9 (simile 5uk aggregates ↔ the cheater of blind man)
MN 755 (conclusion: associate with wise people, so you practice according to Dharma and led to nirvana)
MN 755.2 (Magandiya ordains, soon becomes arahant)
MN 751.2 (magandiya calls Buddha a ‘life destroyer’)
MN 752 (Buddha overhears conversation with divine ear, while in jhāna retreat)
MN 752.1 (magandiya joins conversation to discuss ‘life destroying’)
MN 752.2 (Buddha talks about gratification, danger, escape, dispassion and peace, Magandiya approves)
MN 752.3 (Buddha’s previous luxurious 5kg pleasures in lay life)
MN 752.4 (Buddha’s doesn’t miss or envy that because he has divine pleasures of jhāna ↔ simile gods with their pleasures don’t envy rich humans)
MN 752.4.1 (simile gods with their pleasures don’t envy humans)
MN 753 (simile of leper)
MN 753.1 (simile: would cured leper be jealous of uncured leper?)
MN 753.2 (cured leper wouldn’t want to go back to cauterizing fire ↔ simile: strong man drags them back, they’d struggle)
MN 753.3 (enjoying 5kg is like leper enjoying picking scab and cauterizing, pleasurable but harmful)
MN 754 (can a king enjoy 5kg and have mind of peace?)
MN 754.1 (Buddha’s verse on nirvana being ultimate happiness)
MN 754.2 (Magandiya misinterprets Buddha’s verse)
MN 754.3 (simile of blind man and white cloth being cheated)
MN 754.4 (blind man had blind faith in cheater, rather than knowing and seeing for himself)
MN 754.5 (Surgeon tries to cure blind man but fail)
MN 754.5.1 (Buddha compares himself to surgeon, wondering if it’s worth trouble to teach magandiya)
MN 754.8 (blind man cured by surgeon, personally knows and sees the cheater was lying)
MN 754.9 (simile 5uk aggregates ↔ the cheater of blind man)
MN 755 (conclusion: associate with wise people, so you practice according to Dharma and led to nirvana)
MN 755.2 (Magandiya ordains, soon becomes arahant)
