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- Samyutta Nikaya XV.9
- Danda Sutta
- The Stick
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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. Just as a stick thrown up in the air lands sometimes on its base,
sometimes on its side, sometimes on its tip; in the same way, beings hindered by ignorance
and fettered by craving, transmigrating & wandering on, sometimes go from this world
to another world, sometimes come from another world to this.
"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."