sn12.66:13.1 Suppose there was a bronze goblet of beverage that had a nice color, aroma, and flavor.
BAGIAN 13
sn12.66:13.2 But it was mixed with poison.
sn12.66:13.3 Then along comes a man struggling in the oppressive heat, weary, thirsty, and parched.
sn12.66:13.4 They’d say to him:
sn12.66:13.5 ‘Here, my man, this bronze goblet of beverage has a nice color, aroma, and flavor.
sn12.66:13.6 But it’s mixed with poison.
sn12.66:13.7 Drink it if you like.
sn12.66:13.8 If you drink it, its nice color, aroma, and flavor will refresh you. But drinking it will result in death or deadly pain.’
sn12.66:13.9 Then that man might think:
sn12.66:13.10 ‘I can allay my thirst with a fermented drink of beer, buttermilk, salt lassi, or salted infusion. But in any case, I shouldn’t drink that beverage, for it would be for my lasting harm and suffering.’
sn12.66:13.11 He’d put that beverage down. After appraisal, he wouldn’t drink it,
sn12.66:13.12 and it wouldn’t result in death or deadly pain.
sn12.66:13.13 In the same way, there were ascetics and brahmins of the past who saw the things that seem nice and pleasant in the world as impermanent, as suffering, as not-self, as diseased, and as dangerous.
sn12.66:13.14 They gave up craving.
sn12.66:13.15 Giving up craving, they gave up attachments.
sn12.66:13.16 Giving up attachments, they gave up suffering.
sn12.66:13.17 Giving up suffering, they were freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They were freed from suffering, I say.