Story of the Bamboo Acrobat
2 min readApr 4, 2020
In the Senaka Sutta, there is a story about a bamboo acrobat (similar to a wire walker) and his assistant. The acrobat told his assistant that they should look after each other so that they could both be safe. The assistant disagreed. She said each person should look after himself or herself so that each of them could be safe. In essence, this represents two opposite positions. Seeing this argument, the Buddha said:
