sn15.3:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn15.3:1.2 “Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning.
sn15.3:1.3 No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving.
sn15.3:1.4 What do you think? Which is more: the flow of tears you’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating for such a very long time—weeping and wailing from being coupled with the unloved and separated from the loved—or the water in the four oceans?”
sn15.3:1.5 “As we understand the Buddha’s teaching, the flow of tears we’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.”