SN 56.35 Let's make a deal. How would you like to take 300 spear stabs every day for 100 years?

 

This sutta doesn't make much sense if you're in the YOLO (you only live once) no rebirth believer.

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SN 56.35 Sattisata: A Hundred Spears

• (same dukkha refrain as SN‍-q 56.1.2 )

35. Sattisatasutta	35. A Hundred Spears
“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso vassasatāyuko vassasatajīvī.	“monks, suppose there was a man with a lifespan of a hundred years.
Tamenaṃ evaṃ vadeyya:	And someone might say to him:
‘ehambho purisa, pubbaṇhasamayaṃ taṃ sattisatena hanissanti, majjhanhikasamayaṃ sattisatena hanissanti, sāyanhasamayaṃ sattisatena hanissanti.	‘Come now, my good man, they’ll strike you with a hundred spears in the morning, at midday, and in the late afternoon.
So kho tvaṃ, ambho purisa, divase divase tīhi tīhi sattisatehi haññamāno vassasatāyuko vassasatajīvī vassasatassa accayena anabhisametāni cattāri ariyasaccāni abhisamessasī’ti.	And you’ll live for a hundred years being struck with three hundred spears every day. But when a hundred years have passed, you will comprehend the four noble truths for the first time.’

Atthavasikena, bhikkhave, kulaputtena alaṃ upagantuṃ.	For an earnest and respectable person this is sufficient reason to submit.
Taṃ kissa hetu?	Why is that?
Anamataggoyaṃ, bhikkhave, saṃsāro;	Transmigration has no known beginning.
pubbā koṭi nappaññāyati sattippahārānaṃ asippahārānaṃ usuppahārānaṃ pharasuppahārānaṃ.	No first point is found of blows by spears, swords, arrows, and axes.
Evañcetaṃ, bhikkhave, assa.	Now this may be so.
Na kho panāhaṃ, bhikkhave, saha dukkhena, saha domanassena catunnaṃ ariyasaccānaṃ abhisamayaṃ vadāmi;	But the comprehension of the four noble truths doesn’t come with pain or sadness, I say.
api cāhaṃ, bhikkhave, sahāva sukhena, sahāva somanassena catunnaṃ ariyasaccānaṃ abhisamayaṃ vadāmi.	Rather, the comprehension of the four noble truths comes only with pleasure and happiness, I say.
Katamesaṃ catunnaṃ?	What four?
Dukkhassa ariyasaccassa … pe … dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.	The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

(same dukkha refrain as SN‍-q ^56.1.2)

(dukkha refrain that appears In at least 34 suttas in SN 56) Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, Therefore, monks, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘there is pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is an origination of pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is cessation of pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti. You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is a path of practice that leads to the end of pain and suffering.‘