mn129:24.1 Mendicants, suppose a person were to throw a yoke with a single hole into the ocean.
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mn129:24.2 The east wind wafts it west; the west wind wafts it east; the north wind wafts it south; and the south wind wafts it north.
mn129:24.3 And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years.
mn129:24.4 What do you think, mendicants?
mn129:24.5 Would that one-eyed turtle still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”
mn129:24.6 “No, sir.
mn129:24.7 Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”
mn129:24.8 “That one-eyed turtle would poke its neck through the hole in that yoke sooner than a fool who has fallen to the underworld would be reborn as a human being, I say.
mn129:24.9 Why is that?
mn129:24.10 Because in that place there’s no principled or moral conduct, and no doing what is good and skillful.
mn129:24.11 There they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.