If you would be released, after death might you be released, because releasing binds. That’s not how the attentive are released; such release is the fool’s bondage.

Stories of Past Lives 20 The Book of the Ones Ethics The Reed Drink: a past life story

Seeing footprints go down into the water, and none that return, we shall drink water through a reed: no way shall you kill me.

Stories of Past Lives 21 The Book of the Ones The Four-horned Antelope The Four-horned Antelope: a past life story