The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta
Nikaya
XIII.2
Pokkharani
Sutta
The
Pond
Translated
from
the
Pali
by
Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
Staying
at
Savatthi.
"Suppose,
monks,
that
there
were
a
pond
fifty
leagues
wide,
fifty
leagues
long,
&
fifty
leagues
deep,
filled
to
overflowing
with
water
so
that
a
crow
could
drink
from
it,
and
a
man
would
draw
some
water
out
of
it
with
the
tip
of
a
blade
of
grass.
What
do
you
think?
Which
would
be
greater:
the
water
drawn
out
with
the
tip
of
the
blade
of
grass
or
the
water
in
the
pond?"
"The
water
in
the
pond
would
be
far
greater,
lord.
The
water
drawn
out
with
the
tip
of
the
blade
of
grass
would
be
next
to
nothing.
It
wouldn't
be
a
hundredth,
a
thousandth,
a
one
hundred-thousandth
--
the
water
drawn
out
with
the
tip
of
the
blade
of
grass
--
when
compared
with
the
water
in
the
pond."
"In
the
same
way,
monks,
for
a
disciple
of
the
noble
ones
who
is
consummate
in
view,
an
individual
who
has
broken
through
[to
stream-entry],
the
suffering
&
stress
that
is
totally
ended
&
extinguished
is
far
greater.
That
which
remains
in
the
state
of
having
at
most
seven
remaining
lifetimes
is
next
to
nothing:
it's
not
a
hundredth,
a
thousandth,
a
one
hundred-thousandth,
when
compared
with
the
previous
mass
of
suffering.
That's
how
great
the
benefit
is
of
breaking
through
to
the
Dhamma,
monks.
That's
how
great
the
benefit
is
of
obtaining
the
Dhamma
eye."
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