an5.7:1.1 “Mendicants, sentient beings are mostly charmed by sensual pleasures.
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an5.7:1.2 When a gentleman has abandoned the scythe and flail and gone forth from the lay life to homelessness, they’re qualified to be called ‘a faithful renunciate from a good family’.
an5.7:1.3 Why is that?
an5.7:1.4 Because a youth can get sensual pleasures of this kind or that.
an5.7:1.5 Now, all sensual pleasures are just reckoned as ‘sensual pleasures’, regardless of whether they’re inferior, average, or superior.
an5.7:1.6 Suppose there was a little baby boy who, because of his nursemaid’s negligence, puts a stick or stone in his mouth.
an5.7:1.7 The nursemaid would very quickly notice
an5.7:1.8 and try to take it out.
an5.7:1.9 If that didn’t work, she’d cradle his head with her left hand, and take it out using a hooked finger of her right hand, even if it drew blood.
an5.7:1.10 Why is that?
an5.7:1.11 I admit she’d know, ‘This will distress the child,
an5.7:1.12 there’s no denying.’
an5.7:1.13 Still, it should be done by a nursemaid who wants what’s best for him, out of kindness and sympathy.
an5.7:1.14 And when the boy has grown up and has enough sense, his nursemaid would not be concerned about him, thinking:
an5.7:1.15 ‘The boy can look after himself. He won’t be negligent.’