佛陀說法，一向善用譬喻，讓人容易明白深奧的義理。一天，佛陀為讓弟子知道「人身難得」，舉譬說：大海裡有一隻盲龜，每百年才浮出水面一次。海上有一塊浮木，上面有一個小洞，這塊浮木隨風浪四處漂流。盲龜浮出水面，值遇浮木，龜頭又恰能鑽出浮木孔洞，其機緣小之又小；我們得為人身的機會，猶如盲龜的頭能鑽出浮木孔洞一樣難得。此即有名的「盲龜浮木」喻。

When the Buddha taught the Dharma, he was always skillful in using parables to help people understand the profound doctrine. One day, in order to help his disciples understand the rareness of being born as a human, he related the following parable: "In the ocean there is a blind sea turtle that comes up to the surface once every hundred years. If there is a wooden plank with a small hole floating in the ocean, the chance of the blind turtle's head passing through the small hole is extremely small. The chance of being born as a human is the same as that of the blind turtle poking its head through the hole of the floating plank." This is the famous Parable of the Blind Turtle.

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