The Pig Can Spend Its Life on the Stone but Prefers to Live Under It

Philosophical Summary

On the surface this is a simple naturalist observation. Its deeper application is to human character (Iwa): some people, regardless of the elevated spaces they are given access to, will always return to a lower or more familiar configuration. The proverb is used in Eji Ogbe context as a non-judgmental observation about the difference between potential and disposition.