Simile

It's a good lesson learned.

Similes.

What? Like, um...

What'd you say? Simile.

So I want to read this from the shore.

This is called the Simile of the Heartwood, which is what the Buddha calls the shore heart's release.

This is from Majjhima Nikaya 30, The Simile of the Heartwood.

So speaking to a group of people saying this holy life does not have just gain, honor and renown for its benefit or the attainment of virtue for its benefit or the attainment of concentration for its benefit or knowledge and vision for its benefit.

But it is this unshakable deliverance of mind, the sure heart's release, that is the goal of the holy life, its heartwood and its end.

I... didn't care for the – I think it's a great simile.

I think it's great that they used wrestling.

Simile? Metaphor.

I think it's great that they used wrestling.

But all the context around it and all the, like – I mean, and this is a me problem.

No. Metaphor.

Oh, no. Simile.

Okay.

I think Similes used like and

as.

Yes.

And verse 24 says, which things are an allegory.

Now, when you talk about a simile, S-I-M-I-L-E, a simile, like words like or as a There's a lot of them in the Bible.

And these similes, if there's teaching surrounding it that goes on a little bit, that becomes a parable.

Well, we have also the word metaphor.

A metaphor is ye are the light of the world.

The same thought has been touched by Shakespeare in The Tempest Act 2 Scene 1.

O thou mine heir of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish hath made his meal on thee? And by Shelley in Similes.

As a shark and dogfish wait under an Atlantic isle for the Negro ship whose freight is the theme of their debate, wrinkling their red gills the while.

But how inferior each expression is to that of Aeschylus need hardly be pointed out.

Uh, so, uh, here's another sutta.

This is the Majjhima Nikaya 21, the Simile of the Saw, [laughs] which once I tell it to you, if you don't already know it, you'll probably have... be hard to get it out of your mind.

That's kind of the power of some of these teachings.

So once upon a time, right, this is the Buddha speaking, right here in Savatthi, there was a housewife named Vedahika.

Let it be.

No. Simile, simile.

So I'm...

No opposite, which implies time, progress, practice, trying, becoming, the whole gamut.

He's probably the greatest creator.

Homer is the greatest creator of similes.

in history, maybe rivaled only by Shakespeare.

So there are layers within layers within layers.