Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/02/2020
If the material elements were solely painful, beings would not get attached. If they were solely pleasurable, it would be impossible to become detached. At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, if the earth element were exclusively painful—soaked and steeped in pain and not steeped in pleasure—sentient beings wouldn’t love it. But because the earth element is pleasurable—soaked and steeped in pleasure and not steeped in pain—sentient beings do love it. If the water element … If the fire element … If the air element … If the earth element were exclusively pleasurable—soaked and steeped in pleasure and not steeped in pain—sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.
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