sn35.245:9.1 I’ve made up this simile to make a point.
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sn35.245:9.2 And this is the point.
sn35.245:9.3 ‘City’ is a term for this body made up of the four principal states, produced by mother and father, built up from rice and porridge, liable to impermanence, to wearing away and erosion, to breaking up and destruction.
sn35.245:9.4 ‘Six gates’ is a term for the six interior sense fields.
sn35.245:9.5 ‘Gatekeeper’ is a term for mindfulness.
sn35.245:9.6 ‘A swift pair of messengers’ is a term for serenity and discernment.
sn35.245:9.7 ‘The lord of the city’ is a term for consciousness.
sn35.245:9.8 ‘The central square’ is a term for the four principal states:
sn35.245:9.9 the elements of earth, water, fire, and air.
sn35.245:9.10 ‘A message of truth’ is a term for extinguishment.
sn35.245:9.11 ‘The way they came’ is a term for the noble eightfold path, that is,
sn35.245:9.12 right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.”