The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta
Nikaya
XV.3
Assu
Sutta
Tears
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.
What
do
you
think,
monks:
Which
is
greater,
the
tears
you
have
shed
while
transmigrating
&
wandering
this
long,
long
time
--
crying
&
weeping
from
being
joined
with
what
is
displeasing,
being
separated
from
what
is
pleasing
--
or
the
water
in
the
four
great
oceans?"
"As
we
understand
the
Dhamma
taught
to
us
by
the
Blessed
One,
this
is
the
greater:
the
tears
we
have
shed
while
transmigrating
&
wandering
this
long,
long
time
--
crying
&
weeping
from
being
joined
with
what
is
displeasing,
being
separated
from
what
is
pleasing
--
not
the
water
in
the
four
great
oceans."
"Excellent,
monks.
Excellent.
It
is
excellent
that
you
thus
understand
the
Dhamma
taught
by
me.
"This
is
the
greater:
the
tears
you
have
shed
while
transmigrating
&
wandering
this
long,
long
time
--
crying
&
weeping
from
being
joined
with
what
is
displeasing,
being
separated
from
what
is
pleasing
--
not
the
water
in
the
four
great
oceans.
"Long
have
you
(repeatedly)
experienced
the
death
of
a
mother.
The
tears
you
have
shed
over
the
death
of
a
mother
while
transmigrating
&
wandering
this
long,
long
time
--
crying
&
weeping
from
being
joined
with
what
is
displeasing,
being
separated
from
what
is
pleasing
--
are
greater
than
the
water
in
the
four
great
oceans.
"Long
have
you
(repeatedly)
experienced
the
death
of
a
father...the
death
of
a
brother...the
death
of
a
sister...the
death
of
a
son...the
death
of
a
daughter...loss
with
regard
to
relatives...loss
with
regard
to
wealth...loss
with
regard
to
disease.
The
tears
you
have
shed
over
loss
with
regard
to
disease
while
transmigrating
&
wandering
this
long,
long
time
--
crying
&
weeping
from
being
joined
with
what
is
displeasing,
being
separated
from
what
is
pleasing
--
are
greater
than
the
water
in
the
four
great
oceans.
"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."
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