← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN13.7Connected Discourses 13.7SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 13.71. ComprehensionThe OceanAt Sāvatthī.“Mendicants, suppose a man was to draw up two or three drops of water from the ocean.What do you think, mendicants?Which is more: the two or three drops drawn out or the water in the ocean?”“Sir, the water in the ocean is certainly more.The two or three drops drawn out are tiny.Compared to the water in the ocean, it’s not nearly a hundredth, a thousandth, or a hundred thousandth part.”“In the same way, for a noble disciple, the suffering that’s over and done with is more …”