{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.15/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.15","id":"suttacentral_an10.15","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.15/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, is said to be the best of all sentient beings\u2014be they footless, with two feet, four feet, or many feet; with form or formless; with perception or without perception or with neither perception nor non-perception. In the same way, all skillful qualities are rooted in diligence and meet at diligence, and diligence is said to be the best of them. The footprints of all creatures that walk can fit inside an elephant\u2019s footprint, so an elephant\u2019s footprint is said to be the biggest of them all. In the same way, all skillful qualities are rooted in diligence and meet at diligence, and diligence is said to be the best of them. The rafters of a bungalow all lean to the peak, slope to the peak, and meet at the peak, so the peak is said to be the topmost of them all. In the same way, all skillful qualities are rooted in diligence and meet at diligence, and diligence is said to be the best of them. Of all kinds of fragrant root, spikenard is said to be the best. In the same way \u2026 Of all kinds of fragrant heartwood, red sandalwood is said to be the best. In the same way \u2026 Of all kinds of fragrant flower, jasmine is said to be the best. In the same way \u2026 All lesser kings are vassals of a wheel-turning monarch, so the wheel-turning monarch is said to be the foremost of them all. In the same way \u2026 The radiance of all the stars is not worth a sixteenth part of the moon\u2019s radiance, so the moon\u2019s radiance is said to be the best of them all. In the same way \u2026 In the autumn the heavens are sunny and cloudless. And as the sun is rising to the firmament, having dispelled all the darkness of space, it shines and glows and dazzles. In the same way \u2026 All the great rivers\u2014that is, the Ganges, Yamun\u0101, Aciravat\u012b, Sarabh\u016b, and Mah\u012b\u2014flow, slant, slope, and incline toward the ocean, and the ocean is said to be the greatest of them. In the same way, all skillful qualities are rooted in diligence and meet at diligence, and diligence is said to be the best of them.\u201d","title":"Diligence","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":385}