Fisherman🌱simile
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The Buddha explains how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are vicious, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from the bondage using a simile of a fisherman casting a baited hook.
PTS 2.226–2.227On observing a fisherman killing fish and selling them, the Buddha explains the consequences of cruelty.
PTS 3.301–3.302