{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.142/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.142","id":"suttacentral_an3.142","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.142/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I will teach you the three fine thoroughbred horses, and the three fine thoroughbred people. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cWhat are the three fine thoroughbred horses? One fine thoroughbred horse \u2026 is fast, beautiful, and well proportioned. These are the three fine thoroughbred horses. And what are the three fine thoroughbred people? One fine thoroughbred person \u2026 is fast, beautiful, and well proportioned. And how is a fine thoroughbred person \u2026 fast, beautiful, and well proportioned? It\u2019s 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. This is how they\u2019re fast, I say. When asked a question about the teaching or training, they answer without faltering. This is how they\u2019re beautiful, I say. They receive robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. This is how they\u2019re well proportioned, I say. This is how a fine thoroughbred person is fast, beautiful, and well proportioned. These are the three fine thoroughbred people.\u201d","title":"The Thoroughbred","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":191}