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相応部経典
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相応部経典(SN56.48)
“Mendicants, suppose the earth was entirely covered with water. And a person threw a yoke with a single hole into it. 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. And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years. What do you think, mendicants? Would that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?” “It’s unlikely, sir.” “That’s how unli
「比丘たちよ、譬えば大地がことごとく水に覆われたとしよう。そこに一つの穴のある軛を投じるならば、東風はそれを西へと運び、西風はこれを東へと運び、北風はこれを南へと運び、南風はこれを北へと運ぶ。また、百年に一度だけ水面に浮かび上がる隻眼の亀がいたとしよう。比丘たちよ、汝らはいかに思うか。その百年に一度浮かび上がる隻眼の亀が、かの軛の穴に首を差し入れることがあるであろうか」と。「それはほとんどあり得ないことでございます、世尊よ」と。「そのように、