the shorter discourse with sakuludāyi
Cūḷasakuludāyi Sutta
Majjhima Nikāya 79of 152
Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato
Read by: Roland Kitchen
Description
A wanderer teaches his doctrine of the “highest splendor” but is unable to give a satisfactory account of what that means. The Buddha memorably compares him to someone who is in love with an idealized women who he has never met.