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1.88 Ajjuna#

Able was I
to raise myself from water
to dry land.1
Swept along by the great flood,
I penetrated
the truths.2

Notes#

  1. A standard image for the practice is that of making one’s way across a river from its dangerous near shore to the safety of the further shore. For other uses of this image, see SN 35:197, AN 4:5, AN 7:15, and Sn 5. ↩︎

  2. The four noble truths. ↩︎

Translation © Thanissaro Bhikkhu, from dhammatalks.org, licensed under CC BY 4.0.