Fisherman

2 discourses

Discourses

SN 17.2 Balisa sutta - The Hook

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 2.226–2.227

AN 6.18 Macchabandha sutta - Fisherman

On observing a fisherman killing fish and selling them, the Buddha explains the consequences of cruelty.

PTS 3.301–3.302