sn56.49:1.1 “Mendicants, suppose a person was to place on Sineru, the king of mountains, seven pebbles the size of mung beans.
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sn56.49:1.2 What do you think, mendicants?
sn56.49:1.3 Which is more: the seven pebbles the size of mung beans? Or Sineru, the king of mountains?”
sn56.49:1.4 “Sir, Sineru, the king of mountains, is certainly more.
sn56.49:1.5 The seven pebbles the size of mung beans are tiny.
sn56.49:1.6 Compared to Sineru, they don’t count, there’s no comparison, they’re not worth a fraction.”
sn56.49:1.7 “In the same way, for an individual with comprehension, a noble disciple accomplished in view, the suffering that’s over and done with is more, what’s left is tiny.
sn56.49:1.8 Compared to the mass of suffering in the past that’s over and done with, it doesn’t count, there’s no comparison, it’s not worth a fraction, since there are at most seven more lives.
sn56.49:1.9 Such an individual truly understands about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.