Saṃyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
20. Opamma-Saṃutta
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
II. The Book Called the Nidāna-Vagga
Containing Kindred sayings on Cause
and Other Subjects
20. Kindred Sayings on Parables
Sutta 4
Ukkhā-Sata Suttaṃ aka Okkhā Suttaṃ
The Rich Gift
Translated by Mrs. Rhys Davids
Assisted by F. L. Woodward
Originally Published by
The Pali Text Society
Public Domain
[1][than][olds] "If anyone, brethren,
were to give a morning gift of a hundred ukkā's,
and the same at noon
and the same at eventide,
[177] or if anyone were to practise a morning heart of love,
a noontide heart of love,
an eventide heart of love,
even if it were as slight
as one pull at the cow's udder,[1]
this practice would be by far
the more fruitful of the two.
Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves:
'Liberation of the will through love
we will develop,
we will often practise it,
we will make it a vehicle and a base,
take our stand upon it,
store it up,
thoroughly set it going.'"
[1] Gadduhana-mattam pi is so described in the Comy. 'Pulling just once the udder-teat of a cow.'
