{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.82/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.82","id":"suttacentral_an3.82","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.82/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cSuppose, mendicants, a donkey followed behind a herd of cattle, thinking: \u2018I can moo too! I can moo too!\u2019 But it doesn\u2019t look like a cow, or sound like a cow, or leave a footprint like a cow. Still it follows behind a herd of cattle, thinking: \u2018I can moo too! I can moo too!\u2019 In the same way, some mendicant follows behind the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha, thinking: \u2018I\u2019m a monk too! I\u2019m a monk too!\u2019 But they don\u2019t have the same enthusiasm for undertaking the training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom as the other mendicants. Still they follow behind the mendicant Sa\u1e47gha, thinking: \u2018I\u2019m a monk too! I\u2019m a monk too!\u2019 So you should train like this: \u2018We will have keen enthusiasm for undertaking the training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d","title":"The Donkey","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":148}