The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta
Nikaya
XIII.8
Samudda
Sutta
The
Ocean
Translated
from
the
Pali
by
Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
Staying
at
Savatthi.
"Suppose,
monks,
that
the
great
ocean
were
to
go
to
extinction,
to
its
total
end,
except
for
two
or
three
drops
of
water.
What
do
you
think?
Which
would
be
greater:
the
water
in
the
great
ocean
that
had
gone
to
extinction,
to
its
total
end,
or
the
two
or
three
remaining
drops
of
water?"
"Lord,
the
water
in
the
great
ocean
that
had
gone
to
extinction,
to
its
total
end,
would
be
far
greater.
The
two
or
three
remaining
drops
of
water
would
be
next
to
nothing.
They
wouldn't
be
a
hundredth,
a
thousandth,
a
one
hundred-thousandth
--
the
two
or
three
remaining
drops
of
water
--
when
compared
with
the
water
in
the
great
ocean
that
had
gone
to
extinction,
to
its
total
end."
"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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