{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.15/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.15","id":"suttacentral_an3.15","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.15/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Varanasi in the deer park at Isipatana. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cOnce upon a time, there was a king named Pacetana. Then King Pacetana addressed his chariot-maker, \u2018In six months\u2019 time, my good chariot-maker, there will be a battle. Are you able to make me a new pair of wheels?\u2019 \u2018I can, Your Majesty,\u2019 replied the chariot-maker. Then, when it was six days less than six months later, the chariot-maker had finished one wheel. Then King Pacetana addressed his chariot-maker, \u2018In six days\u2019 time there will be a battle. Is my new pair of wheels finished?\u2019 \u2018Now that it is six days less than six months, Your Majesty, I have finished one wheel.\u2019 \u2018Are you able to finish the second wheel in these six days?\u2019 Saying, \u2018I can, Your Majesty,\u2019 the chariot-maker finished the second wheel in six days. Taking the pair of wheels he went up to King Pacetana, and said this to the king, \u2018Your Majesty, these are your two new wheels, finished.\u2019 \u2018But, my good chariot-maker, what is the difference between the wheel that was finished in six days less than six months, and the wheel finished in just six days? Because I can\u2019t see any difference between them.\u2019 \u2018But, Your Majesty, there is a difference. See now what it is.\u2019 Then the chariot-maker rolled forth the wheel that had been finished in six days. It rolled as far as the original impetus took it, then wobbled and fell down. Then he rolled forth the wheel that had been finished in six days less than six months. It rolled as far as the original impetus took it, then stood still as if fixed to an axle. \u2018But what is the cause, my good chariot-maker, what is the reason why the wheel that was finished in six days wobbled and fell, while the one that was finished in six days less than six months stood still as if fixed to an axle?\u2019 \u2018The wheel that was finished in six days, Your Majesty, is crooked, flawed, and defective in rim, spoke, and hub. That\u2019s why it wobbled and fell. The wheel that was finished in six days less than six months, Your Majesty, is not crooked, flawed, and defective in rim, spoke, and hub. That\u2019s why it stood still as if fixed to an axle.\u2019 Now, mendicants, you might think: \u2018Surely that chariot-maker must have been someone else at that time?\u2019 But you should not see it like that. I myself was the chariot-maker at that time. Then I was skilled in the crooks, flaws, and defects of wood. Now that I am a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha, I am skilled in the crooks, flaws, and defects of actions by body, speech, and mind. Whatever monk or nun has not given up the crooks, flaws, and defects of body, speech, and mind has fallen from the teaching and training, just like the wheel that was finished in six days. Whatever monk or nun has given up the crooks, flaws, and defects of body, speech, and mind is established in the teaching and training, just like the wheel that was finished in six days less than six months. So you should train like this: \u2018We will give up the crooks, flaws, and defects of body, speech, and mind.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d","title":"About Pacetana","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":574}