Sunday, 6 July 2014



This precious human birth
"Suppose that this great earth were totally covered with water, and a man were to toss a yoke with a single hole there. 
A wind from the east would push it west,
A wind from the west would push it east.
A wind from the north would push it south,
A wind from the south would push it north. 

And suppose a blind sea-turtle were there. 
Suppose the turtle would come to the surface once every one hundred years. Now what do you think: would that blind sea-turtle, coming to the surface once every one hundred years, stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole?"
"It would be a sheer coincidence, Lord, that the blind sea-turtle, coming to the surface once every one hundred years, would stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole."

"It is likewise a sheer coincidence that one obtains the human state. 

It is likewise a sheer coincidence that a Tathāgata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, arises in the world.

It is likewise a sheer coincidence that a doctrine & discipline expounded by a Tathāgata appears in the world.


Do not waste this precious human birth."



— Samyutta Nikāya


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