〖水牛〗

佛陀确实教导真理，如果你仔细思惟，其实是无法与佛陀争辩的。然而众生却如水牛一般，四肢若非紧紧地被绑住，牠不会乖乖服药。一旦被绑住无法行动时，哈！现在，如果你愿意，就可以无后顾之忧地畏牠吃药，而牠却无法反抗。至此，牠便会投降了。我们众生也是如此，唯有当我们全然地被束缚于痛苦，以至无法挣脱时，我们才会放下我们的无明。如果我们仍有余力挣脱时，就会不肯轻易放弃。

Water Buffalo

The Buddha really taught the truth. If you contemplate it, there is nowhere you can argue with him. But we people are like a buffalo. If it's not tied down by all four legs, it'll not let itself be given any medicine. If tied down and it can do anything --aha! - now if you want to, you can go ahead and give it medicine and it can't struggle away. At this extent it will give up. We people are similar. Only when we are completely bound up in suffering will we let go of our delusions. If we can still struggle away, we will not give up very easily.