Paṭhamachiggaḷayugasutta
A blind turtle would put its head through a yoke with a hole in it floating in the ocean sooner than someone in the lower realms would be reborn as a human.
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Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.47
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5. Papātavagga
5. A Cliff
Paṭhamachiggaḷayugasutta
A Yoke With a Hole (1st)
- 1.1
“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso mahāsamudde ekacchiggaḷaṁ yugaṁ pakkhipeyya. Tatrāpissa kāṇo kacchapo. So vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjeyya.
“Mendicants, suppose a person were to throw a yoke with a single hole into the ocean. And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years.
- 1.2
Taṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,
What do you think, mendicants?
- 1.3
api nu kho kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjanto amusmiṁ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṁ paveseyyā”ti?
Would that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”
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“Yadi nūna, bhante, kadāci karahaci dīghassa addhuno accayenā”ti.
“Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”
- 2.1
“Khippataraṁ kho so, bhikkhave, kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjanto amusmiṁ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṁ paveseyya, na tvevāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sakiṁ vinipātagatena bālena manussattaṁ vadāmi.
“That one-eyed turtle might poke its neck through the hole in that yoke, but in any case it’d be sooner than a fool fallen to the underworld is reborn as a human being, I say.
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Taṁ kissa hetu?
Why is that?
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Na hettha, bhikkhave, atthi dhammacariyā, samacariyā, kusalakiriyā, puññakiriyā.
Because in that place there’s no principled or moral conduct, and no doing what is good and skillful.
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Aññamaññakhādikā ettha, bhikkhave, vattati dubbalakhādikā.
There they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.
- 3.4
Taṁ kissa hetu?
Why is that?
- 3.5
Adiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.
It’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.
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Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ?
What four?
- 3.7
Dukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.
The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.
- 4.1
Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.
That’s why you should practice meditation …”
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Sattamaṁ.
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