{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/thig/thig3.htm","path":"bud/thig/thig3.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/thig/thig3.htm","text":"Four times, five, I ran amok from my dwelling,\nhaving gained no peace of awareness,\nmy thoughts out of control.\nSo I went to a trustworthy nun.\nShe taught me the Dhamma:\naggregates, sense spheres, & elements.\nHearing the Dhamma,\nI did as she said.\nFor seven days I sat in one spot,\nabsorbed in rapture & bliss.\nOn the eighth, I stretched out my legs,\nhaving burst the mass\nof darkness.\nComing out from my day's abiding\non Vulture Peak Mountain,\nI saw on the bank of a river\nan elephant\nemerged from its plunge.\nA man holding a hook requested:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"Give me your foot.\"\nThe elephant\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 extended its foot.\nThe man\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 got up on the elephant.\nSeeing what was untrained now tamed\nbrought under human control,\nwith that I centered my mind -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 why I'd gone to the woods\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the first place.\n\"'Jiva, my daughter,'\nyou cry in the woods.\nCome to your senses, Ubbiri.\n84,000\nall named Jiva\nhave been burned in that charnel ground.\nFor which of them do you grieve?\"\nPulling out\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- completely out -- \nthe arrow so hard to see,\nembedded in my heart,\nhe expelled from me\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- overcome with grief -- \nthe grief\nover my daughter.\nToday -- with arrow removed,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 without hunger, entirely\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unbound -- \nto the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha I go,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for refuge to\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the Sage.","title":"Therigatha III","type":"page"}