Food for Thought #69

~ By Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~

The sea and the land meet and are only separated by a fine line. Fish, however, cannot know or imagine what life on land is like. Nibbana is like an island of refuge, but there are very few people who make the supreme effort to swim to it. The same is true for birds caught in a trap - very few ever escape the grasp of the hunter.

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From “Food for Thought,” Some Teachings of Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu. Translated from the Thai (อาหารใจ) by Grant A. Olson. 

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