“Mendicants, suppose a person was to place seven clay balls the size of jujube seeds on the great earth.
What do you think, mendicants? Which is more: the seven clay balls the size of jujube seeds, or the great earth?”
2 “Sir, the great earth is certainly more. The seven clay balls the size of jujube seeds are tiny. Compared to the great earth, it’s not nearly a hundredth, a thousandth, or a hundred thousandth part.”
“In the same way, for a noble disciple, the suffering that’s over and done with is more …”