“Mendicants, suppose a man was to draw up two or three drops of water from the ocean.
What do you think, mendicants? Which is more: the two or three drops drawn out or the water in the ocean?”
2 “Sir, the water in the ocean is certainly more. The two or three drops drawn out are tiny. Compared to the water in the ocean, it’s not nearly a hundredth, a thousandth, or a hundred thousandth part.”
“In the same way, for a noble disciple, the suffering that’s over and done with is more …”