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The First Discourse on the Ocean
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"'The ocean, the ocean,' monks, the ignorant worldling speaks.
This, monks, is not the ocean in the Noble One's discipline.
This, monks, is a great heap of water, a great expanse of water.
The eye, monks, is a person's ocean;
its force is made of forms.
Whoever overcomes that force made of forms, this one is called, monks, one who has crossed the eye-ocean with its waves, with its whirlpools, with its ferocious creatures, with its demons;
one who has crossed over, gone beyond, the brahmin stands on dry ground, etc.
The tongue, monks, is a person's ocean;
its force is made of flavours.
Whoever overcomes that force made of flavours, this one is called, monks, one who has crossed the tongue-ocean with its waves, with its whirlpools, with its ferocious creatures, with its demons;
one who has crossed over, gone beyond, the brahmin stands on dry ground, etc.
The mind, monks, is a person's ocean;
its force is made of mental phenomena.
Whoever overcomes that force made of mental phenomena, this one is called, monks, one who has crossed the mind-ocean with its waves, with its whirlpools, with its ferocious creatures, with its demons;
one who has crossed over, gone beyond, the brahmin stands on dry ground."
This he said, etc.
the Teacher -
With its waves, with its whirlpools, fearful, difficult to cross;
He is one who has attained the highest knowledge, one who has fulfilled the holy life,
One who has reached the end of the world, he is called one who has gone beyond." The first.