{"id":"an3.142","title":"The Thoroughbred","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.142","title":"The Thoroughbred","units":[{"id":"an3.142:0","sourceIds":["an3.142:0.1","an3.142:0.2","an3.142:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.142\n14. Yodhājīvavagga\nAssājānīyasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.142\n14. A Warrior\nThe Thoroughbred"}},{"id":"an3.142:1","sourceIds":["an3.142:1.1","an3.142:1.2","an3.142:1.3","an3.142:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tayo ca, bhikkhave, bhadre assājānīye desessāmi tayo ca bhadre purisājānīye.\nTaṁ suṇātha, sādhukaṁ manasi karotha, bhāsissāmī”ti.\n“Evaṁ, bhante”ti kho te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you the three fine thoroughbred horses, and the three fine thoroughbred people.\nListen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”\n“Yes, sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"an3.142:2","sourceIds":["an3.142:2.1","an3.142:2.2","an3.142:2.3","an3.142:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katame ca, bhikkhave, tayo bhadrā assājānīyā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco bhadro assājānīyo …pe…\njavasampanno ca hoti vaṇṇasampanno ca ārohapariṇāhasampanno ca.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, tayo bhadrā assājānīyā.","en":"“What are the three fine thoroughbred horses?\nOne fine thoroughbred horse …\nis fast, beautiful, and well proportioned.\nThese are the three fine thoroughbred horses."}},{"id":"an3.142:3","sourceIds":["an3.142:3.1","an3.142:3.2","an3.142:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katame ca, bhikkhave, tayo bhadrā purisājānīyā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco bhadro purisājānīyo …pe…\njavasampanno ca hoti vaṇṇasampanno ca ārohapariṇāhasampanno ca.","en":"And what are the three fine thoroughbred people?\nOne fine thoroughbred person …\nis fast, beautiful, and well proportioned."}},{"id":"an3.142:4","sourceIds":["an3.142:4.1","an3.142:4.2","an3.142:4.3","an3.142:4.4","an3.142:4.5","an3.142:4.6","an3.142:4.7","an3.142:4.8","an3.142:4.9","an3.142:4.10","an3.142:4.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhadro purisājānīyo …pe…\njavasampanno ca hoti vaṇṇasampanno ca ārohapariṇāhasampanno ca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu āsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nIdamassa javasmiṁ vadāmi.\nAbhidhamme kho pana abhivinaye pañhaṁ puṭṭho vissajjeti, no saṁsādeti.\nIdamassa vaṇṇasmiṁ vadāmi.\nLābhī kho pana hoti cīvarapiṇḍapātasenāsanagilānappaccayabhesajjaparikkhārānaṁ.\nIdamassa ārohapariṇāhasmiṁ vadāmi.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhadro purisājānīyo javasampanno ca hoti vaṇṇasampanno ca ārohapariṇāhasampanno ca.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, tayo bhadrā purisājānīyā”ti.\nDasamaṁ.","en":"And how is a fine thoroughbred person …\nfast, beautiful, and well proportioned?\nIt’s when a mendicant realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\nThis is how they’re fast, I say.\nWhen asked a question about the teaching or training, they answer without faltering.\nThis is how they’re beautiful, I say.\nThey receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.\nThis is how they’re well proportioned, I say.\nThis is how a fine thoroughbred person is fast, beautiful, and well proportioned.\nThese are the three fine thoroughbred people.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.142/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}