{"id":"sn56.47","title":"A Yoke With a Hole (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.47","title":"A Yoke With a Hole (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn56.47:0","sourceIds":["sn56.47:0.1","sn56.47:0.2","sn56.47:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.47\n5. Papātavagga\nPaṭhamachiggaḷayugasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.47\n5. A Cliff\nA Yoke With a Hole (1st)"}},{"id":"sn56.47:1","sourceIds":["sn56.47:1.1","sn56.47:1.2","sn56.47:1.3","sn56.47:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso mahāsamudde ekacchiggaḷaṁ yugaṁ pakkhipeyya. Tatrāpissa kāṇo kacchapo. So vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjeyya.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\napi nu kho kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjanto amusmiṁ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṁ paveseyyā”ti?\n“Yadi nūna, bhante, kadāci karahaci dīghassa addhuno accayenā”ti.","en":"“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.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWould that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”\n“Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”"}},{"id":"sn56.47:2","sourceIds":["sn56.47:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“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.","en":"“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."}},{"id":"sn56.47:3","sourceIds":["sn56.47:3.1","sn56.47:3.2","sn56.47:3.3","sn56.47:3.4","sn56.47:3.5","sn56.47:3.6","sn56.47:3.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṁ kissa hetu?\nNa hettha, bhikkhave, atthi dhammacariyā, samacariyā, kusalakiriyā, puññakiriyā.\nAññamaññakhādikā ettha, bhikkhave, vattati dubbalakhādikā.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAdiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.\nKatamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\nDukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.","en":"Why is that?\nBecause in that place there’s no principled or moral conduct, and no doing what is good and skillful.\nThere they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.\nWhy is that?\nIt’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.\nWhat four?\nThe noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path."}},{"id":"sn56.47:4","sourceIds":["sn56.47:4.1","sn56.47:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.47/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}