sn15.13:3.1 “Good, good, mendicants! It’s good that you understand my teaching like this.
sn15.13:3.2 The flow of blood you’ve shed when your head was chopped off while roaming and transmigrating is indeed more than the water in the four oceans.
sn15.13:3.3 For a long time you’ve been cows, and the flow of blood you’ve shed when your head was chopped off as a cow is more than the water in the four oceans.
sn15.13:3.4 For a long time you’ve been buffalo …
sn15.13:3.5 sheep …
sn15.13:3.6 goats …
sn15.13:3.7 deer …
sn15.13:3.8 chickens …
sn15.13:3.9 pigs …
sn15.13:3.10 For a long time you’ve been bandits, arrested for raiding villages,
sn15.13:3.11 highway robbery,
sn15.13:3.12 or adultery. And the flow of blood you’ve shed when your head was chopped off as a bandit is more than the water in the four oceans.
sn15.13:3.13 Why is that?
sn15.13:3.14 This transmigration has no known beginning. …
sn15.13:3.15 This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”