Proverb 14: Frog in a well

Here is today's proverb:

井の中の蛙大海を知らず

And in romaji:

i no naka no kawazu tai kai wo shira-zu

And English: "The frog in the middle of the well doesn't know the big ocean."

This proverb is sometimes told as a parable too, so I'll have to include the parable version here at the blog too! It's a notion that fits in all kinds of religious traditions, whether the "great ocean" is God or the ground of being or what have you — something bigger than the well in which we frogs find ourselves.

painting of the proverb

My vocabulary for today:

海
かい
"ocean, sea"