sn35.247:1.1 “Mendicants, suppose a person with wounded and festering limbs was to enter a thicket of reeds.
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sn35.247:1.2 The kusa thorns would pierce their feet, and the reed leaves would scratch their limbs.
sn35.247:1.3 And that would cause that person to experience even more pain and distress.
sn35.247:1.4 In the same way, some mendicant goes to a village or a wilderness and gets scolded,
sn35.247:1.5 ‘This venerable, acting like this, behaving like this, is a filthy village thorn.’
sn35.247:1.6 Understanding that they’re a thorn, they should understand restraint and lack of restraint.