dn29:16.1 Of all the teachers in the world today, Cunda, I don’t see even a single one who has reached the peak of material things and fame like me.
dn29:16.2 Of all the spiritual communities and groups in the world today, Cunda, I don’t see even a single one who has reached the pinnacle of material things and fame like the mendicant Saṅgha.
dn29:16.4 And if there’s any spiritual path of which it may be rightly said that
dn29:16.5 it’s endowed with all good qualities, complete in all good qualities, neither too little nor too much, well explained, whole, complete, and fully revealed,
dn29:16.6 it’s of this spiritual path that this should be said.
dn29:16.8 Uddaka son of Rāma used to say:
dn29:16.9 ‘Seeing, one does not see.’
dn29:16.10 But seeing what does one not see?
dn29:16.11 You can see the blade of a well-sharpened razor, but not the edge.
dn29:16.12 Thus it is said:
dn29:16.13 ‘Seeing, one does not see.’
dn29:16.14 But that saying of Uddaka’s is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless, as it’s only about a razor.
dn29:16.15 If there’s anything of which it may be rightly said:
dn29:16.16 ‘Seeing, one does not see,’ it’s of this that it should be said.
dn29:16.18 Seeing what does one not see?
dn29:16.19 One sees this: a spiritual path endowed with all good qualities, complete in all good qualities, neither too little nor too much, well explained, whole, complete, and fully revealed.
dn29:16.20 One does not see this: anything that, were it to be removed, would make it purer.
dn29:16.21 One does not see this: anything that, were it to be added, would make it more complete.
dn29:16.22 Thus it is rightly said:
dn29:16.23 ‘Seeing, one does not see.’


