sn20.7:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
BAGIAN 1
sn20.7:1.2 “Once upon a time, mendicants, the Dasārahas had a <em>mridangam</em> drum called the Plugger.
sn20.7:1.3 When the Plugger cracked, the Dasārahas patched it with another plug.
sn20.7:1.4 Eventually, there came a time when the old wooden shell for the drumskin disappeared
sn20.7:1.5 and all that was left of the <em>mridangam</em> Plugger was a mass of plugs.
sn20.7:1.6 In the same way, in a future time there will be mendicants who won’t want to listen when discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—are being recited. They won’t actively listen or try to understand, nor will they think those teachings are worth learning and memorizing.