sn35.244:8.1 Suppose there was an iron cauldron that had been heated all day, and a person let two or three drops of water fall onto it. Slowly the drops fall, but then they quickly dry up and evaporate.
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sn35.244:8.2 In the same way, perhaps while that mendicant is conducting themselves and living in this way, bad, unskillful memories and thoughts that tighten the fetters arise every so often due to loss of mindfulness. Slowly mindfulness arises, but then they quickly give up, dispel, eliminate, and obliterate those thoughts.
sn35.244:8.3 This is how a mendicant has awakened to a way of conduct and a way of living such that, when they live in that way, bad, unskillful qualities of covetousness and displeasure don’t overwhelm them.
sn35.244:8.4 While that mendicant conducts themselves in this way and lives in this way, it may be that rulers or their chief ministers, friends or colleagues, relatives or family would invite them to accept wealth, saying,
sn35.244:8.5 ‘Please, my man, why let these ocher robes torment you?
sn35.244:8.6 Why follow the practice of shaving your head and carrying an alms bowl?
sn35.244:8.7 Come, return to a lesser life, enjoy wealth, and make merit!’
sn35.244:8.8 But it is quite impossible for a mendicant who conducts themselves in this way and lives in this way to resign the training and return to a lesser life.