Contentment: The Water Snake again
Highest wealth for material things? Poison for spiritual things? Material things mainly 4 essentials The shelter, food, clothes and medicine The manasikāra (attention) of the strengths of others and weaknesses within A sign of superiority and vice versa The motive of progress, not material but spiritual A lookup of weaknesses within, a sign of poor contentment, too, towards spirituality A motive for the rise in the zeal for spiritual progress Comfort even in a meal once a day Comfort even in a rag of clothes But no comfort with an immoral mind No comfort with a happy state of mind Unless the accomplishment of the quest for deathlessness But the use of dhamma for selfish matters A matter of a wrong grasp of the water snake, too Water snake, the dhamma Wrong grasp when no contentment in material things The extraction of a part of dhamma, for use in worldly matters A worldly matter like the revenge A worldly matter like indulgence in sense pleasures Indulgence in sense pleasures with...