Four times, five, I ran amok from my dwelling,
having gained no peace of awareness,
my thoughts out of control.
So I went to a trustworthy nun.
She taught me the Dhamma:
aggregates, sense spheres, & elements.
Hearing the Dhamma,
I did as she said.
For seven days I sat in one spot,
absorbed in rapture & bliss.
On the eighth, I stretched out my legs,
having burst the mass
of darkness.
Coming out from my day's abiding
on Vulture Peak Mountain,
I saw on the bank of a river
an elephant
emerged from its plunge.A man holding a hook requested:
"Give me your foot."
The elephant
extended its foot.
The man
got up on the elephant.Seeing what was untrained now tamed
brought under human control,
with that I centered my mind --
why I'd gone to the woods
in the first place.