{"id":"an3.82","title":"The Donkey","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.82","title":"The Donkey","units":[{"id":"an3.82:0","sourceIds":["an3.82:0.1","an3.82:0.2","an3.82:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.82\n9. Samaṇavagga\nGadrabhasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.82\n9. Ascetics\nThe Donkey"}},{"id":"an3.82:1","sourceIds":["an3.82:1.1","an3.82:1.2","an3.82:1.3","an3.82:1.4","an3.82:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gadrabho gogaṇaṁ piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandho hoti:\n‘ahampi dammo, ahampi dammo’ti.\nTassa na tādiso vaṇṇo hoti seyyathāpi gunnaṁ, na tādiso saro hoti seyyathāpi gunnaṁ, na tādisaṁ padaṁ hoti seyyathāpi gunnaṁ.\nSo gogaṇaṁyeva piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandho hoti:\n‘ahampi dammo, ahampi dammo’ti.","en":"“Suppose, mendicants, a donkey followed behind a herd of cattle, thinking:\n‘I can moo too! I can moo too!’\nBut it doesn’t look like a cow, or sound like a cow, or leave a footprint like a cow.\nStill it follows behind a herd of cattle, thinking:\n‘I can moo too! I can moo too!’"}},{"id":"an3.82:2","sourceIds":["an3.82:2.1","an3.82:2.2","an3.82:2.3","an3.82:2.4","an3.82:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, idhekacco bhikkhu bhikkhusaṅghaṁ piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandho hoti:\n‘ahampi bhikkhu, ahampi bhikkhū’ti.\nTassa na tādiso chando hoti adhisīlasikkhāsamādāne seyyathāpi aññesaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ, na tādiso chando hoti adhicittasikkhāsamādāne seyyathāpi aññesaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ, na tādiso chando hoti adhipaññāsikkhāsamādāne seyyathāpi aññesaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ.\nSo bhikkhusaṅghaṁyeva piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandho hoti:\n‘ahampi bhikkhu, ahampi bhikkhū’ti.","en":"In the same way, some mendicant follows behind the mendicant Saṅgha, thinking:\n‘I’m a monk too! I’m a monk too!’\nBut they don’t have the same enthusiasm for undertaking the training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom as the other mendicants.\nStill they follow behind the mendicant Saṇgha, thinking:\n‘I’m a monk too! I’m a monk too!’"}},{"id":"an3.82:3","sourceIds":["an3.82:3.1","an3.82:3.2","an3.82:3.3","an3.82:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘tibbo no chando bhavissati adhisīlasikkhāsamādāne, tibbo no chando bhavissati adhicittasikkhāsamādāne, tibbo no chando bhavissati adhipaññāsikkhāsamādāne’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"So you should train like this:\n‘We will have keen enthusiasm for undertaking the training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.82/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."}