Reply To: Upādāna, Vanilla Cookies and the Sakadagami Stage

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Johnny_Lim
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Indulging in vanilla cookies is no different from smoking weeds. Vanilla cookies and weeds are just sense objects. We crave for the sensual pleasures from the gratification process.

If you have ever stored honey outside your fridge, chances are ants will enter the jar or container. When you open up the container, you could see that they are already dead inside. Either they are drown by honey or they eat themselves to death. I don’t know. Whatever it is, we can deduce a fact from this observation – Ants cannot withstand the temptation from honey.

Ants die for honey just like men die for money. Honey is to money, just like vanilla cookie is to weeds.