SN 56.47 Who has better odds, turtle or man escaping hell?

 

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SN 56.47 Paṭhamachiggaḷayuga: A Yoke With a Hole (1st)

• (same dukkha refrain as SN‍-q 56.1.2 )

47. Paṭhamachiggaḷayugasutta	47. A Yoke With a Hole (1st)
“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso mahāsamudde ekacchiggaḷaṃ yugaṃ pakkhipeyya. Tatrāpissa kāṇo kacchapo. So vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṃ sakiṃ ummujjeyya.	“monks, suppose a person was to throw a yoke with a single hole into the ocean. And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years.
Taṃ kiṃ maññatha, bhikkhave,	What do you think, monks?
api nu kho kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṃ sakiṃ ummujjanto amusmiṃ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṃ paveseyyā”ti?	Would that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”
“Yadi nūna, bhante, kadāci karahaci dīghassa addhuno accayenā”ti.	“Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”

“Khippataraṃ kho so, bhikkhave, kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṃ sakiṃ ummujjanto amusmiṃ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṃ paveseyya, na tvevāhaṃ, bhikkhave, sakiṃ vinipātagatena bālena manussattaṃ vadāmi.

“That one-eyed turtle would poke its neck through the hole in that yoke sooner than a fool who has fallen to the underworld would be reborn as a human being, I say.

Taṃ kissa hetu?	Why is that?
Na hettha, bhikkhave, atthi dhammacariyā, samacariyā, kusalakiriyā, puññakiriyā.	Because there there’s no principled or moral conduct, and no doing what is good and skillful.
Aññamaññakhādikā ettha, bhikkhave, vattati dubbalakhādikā.	There they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.
Taṃ kissa hetu?	Why is that?
Adiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṃ ariyasaccānaṃ.	It’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.
Katamesaṃ catunnaṃ?	What four?
Dukkhassa ariyasaccassa … pe … dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.	The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

(same dukkha refrain as SN‍-q ^56.1.2)

(dukkha refrain that appears In at least 34 suttas in SN 56) Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, Therefore, monks, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘there is pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is an origination of pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti yogo karaṇīyo, You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is cessation of pain and suffering.’ ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti. You should be devoted [to seeing] ‘There is a path of practice that leads to the end of pain and suffering.‘