Another verse:
Blinded indeed is this world. Few are those who see the truth. Like a bird breaking out of the net, few are those who go to heaven.
I have no argument with the 'few are those who see the truth' but the bird breaking out of the net analogy is unclear. I assume that what The Buddha is saying is that birds, when they end up captured in a hunter's net, mostly stay captured and few manage to escape. But most birds are free and very few birds actually end up in nets. It would also have been nice if the analogy had something to do with clarity and truth rather than just having a sharper beak!
(This verse is from the chapter, The World. All about doing the right deeds in the right way.)
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