"Latin Thugs" by Cypress Hill with Mexican B Real, Scandinavian DJ Muggs, and Black Sen Dog, et al.
The Buddha explains how rare a human rebirth is with a powerful simile of a turtle and a floating wooden ring.
Dhr. Seven (trans.), Ashley Wells (ed.), Chiggala Sutta, "A Hole 1," Sacca Samyutta (SN 56.47) via suttafriends.org, Beth Upton (bethupton.com) recommendation
Karma: Giselle Bundchen saves sea turtle |
“What do you think? Would that blind turtle, popping up once every century, ever poke its neck through the hole in that piece of wood?”
“Only after a very long time, venerable sir, if ever.”
“Meditators, I say, that blind turtle, popping up only once every hundred years, would poke its neck through the hole in that piece of wood sooner than a foolish person who has fallen into [rebirth in] the lower worlds would be reborn again as a human being.
[The thug life]
“Why is that? Meditators, it is because in lower worlds there is no Dharma practice or accruing merit.
“In the lower worlds [subhuman rebirths known as the downfall*], they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.
“Why is that? It is because they have not seen the Four Noble Truths. What four [ennobling truths]?
- the ennobling truth of suffering
- the ennobling truth of the origin of suffering
- the ennobling truth of the end of suffering
- the ennobling truth of the path that leads to the end of all suffering.
I look nothing like a turtle! (Mitch McConnell) |
“Make an effort to understand: ‘This is the path that leads to the end of all suffering.’”
- Human beings in Buddhism
- A Buddhist Response to Contemporary Dilemmas of Human Existence (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
- "A Hole 2" (SN 56.48) Dutiya Chiggala Sutra (Sutta Friends)
- Chiggala Sutta: "The Hole" (Ven. Thanissaro, accesstoinsight.org)
- The Playboy (masturbation with Chester Brown)
- *"Subhuman rebirths"? (niraya or "downward path" of animals, asuras/demons, hungry ghosts, and the many hells or naraka in Buddhism)
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