Thig 3:5 · Ubbiri
[Ubbiri recalls the Buddha’s words:]
“‘Jīva, my daughter,’
you cry in the woods.
Come to your senses, Ubbiri.
84,000
all named Jīva
have been burned in that charnel ground.
For which of them do you grieve?”
Pulling out
—completely out—
the arrow so hard to see,
embedded in my heart,
he expelled from me
—overcome with grief—
the grief
over my daughter.
Today—with arrow removed,
without hunger, entirely
unbound—
to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Saṅgha I go,
for refuge to
the Sage.
See also: SN 47:13; AN 5:49; Ud 5:1; Ud 8:8; Sn 3:8; Thig 6:1
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
