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At [[Savatthi]]. There the [[Blessed One]] said: "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though [[beings]] hindered by [[ignorance]] and fettered by [[craving]] are transmigrating & wandering on. Just as a stick thrown up in the [[air]] lands sometimes on its base, sometimes on its side, sometimes on its tip; in the same way, [[beings]] hindered by [[ignorance]] and fettered by [[craving]], transmigrating & wandering on, sometimes go from this [[world]] to another [[world]], sometimes come from another [[world]] to this. | At [[Savatthi]]. There the [[Blessed One]] said: "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though [[beings]] hindered by [[ignorance]] and fettered by [[craving]] are transmigrating & wandering on. Just as a stick thrown up in the [[air]] lands sometimes on its base, sometimes on its side, sometimes on its tip; in the same way, [[beings]] hindered by [[ignorance]] and fettered by [[craving]], transmigrating & wandering on, sometimes go from this [[world]] to another [[world]], sometimes come from another [[world]] to this. | ||
Revision as of 18:15, 3 April 2014
The Stick
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
At Savatthi. There the Blessed One said: "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Just as a stick thrown up in the air lands sometimes on its base, sometimes on its side, sometimes on its tip; in the same way, beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving, transmigrating & wandering on, sometimes go from this world to another world, sometimes come from another world to this.
"Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries, enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released."
