{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an11.22/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an11.22","id":"suttacentral_an11.22","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an11.22/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, a cowherd with eleven factors can\u2019t maintain and expand a herd of cattle. What eleven? It\u2019s when a cowherd doesn\u2019t know form, is unskilled in characteristics, doesn\u2019t pick out flies\u2019 eggs, doesn\u2019t dress wounds, doesn\u2019t spread smoke, doesn\u2019t know the ford, doesn\u2019t know satisfaction, doesn\u2019t know the trail, is not skilled in pastures, milks dry, and doesn\u2019t show extra respect to the bulls who are fathers and captains of the herd. A cowherd with these eleven factors can\u2019t maintain and expand a herd of cattle. In the same way, a mendicant with eleven qualities can\u2019t meditate observing impermanence in the eye \u2026","title":"Untitled Discourses on the Eye","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":103}