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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

11: The Book of the Elevens

22–29. Contemplation of Impermanence

1"Bhikkhus, possessing eleven factors, a cowherd is incapable of keeping and rearing a herd of cattle. What eleven? Here, (1) a cowherd has no knowledge of form; (2) he is unskilled in characteristics; (3) he fails to pick out flies’ eggs; (4) he fails to dress wounds; (5) he fails to smoke out the sheds; (6) he does not know the watering place; (7) he does not know what it is to have drunk; (8) he does not know the road; (9) he is unskilled in pastures; (10) he milks dry; and (11) he shows no extra veneration to those bulls who are fathers and leaders of the herd. Possessing these eleven factors, a cowherd is incapable of keeping and rearing a herd of cattle.

1"Ekādasahi, bhikkhave, aṅgehi samannāgato gopālako abhabbo gogaṇaṁ pariharituṁ phātiṁ kātuṁ. Katamehi ekādasahi? Idha, bhikkhave, gopālako na rūpaññū hoti, na lakkhaṇakusalo hoti, na āsāṭikaṁ hāretā hoti, na vaṇaṁ paṭicchādetā hoti, na dhūmaṁ kattā hoti, na titthaṁ jānāti, na pītaṁ jānāti, na vīthiṁ jānāti, na gocarakusalo hoti, anavasesadohī ca hoti, ye te usabhā gopitaro gopariṇāyakā te na atirekapūjāya pūjetā hoti – imehi kho, bhikkhave, ekādasahi aṅgehi samannāgato gopālako abhabbo gogaṇaṁ pariharituṁ phātiṁ kātuṁ.

2"So too, bhikkhus, possessing eleven qualities, a bhikkhu is incapable of dwelling contemplating impermanence in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating suffering in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating non-self in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating destruction in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating vanishing in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating fading away in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating cessation in the eye … incapable of dwelling contemplating relinquishment in the eye … "

2Evamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekādasahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ aniccānupassī viharituṁ … pe … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ dukkhānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ anattānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ khayānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ vayānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ virāgānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ nirodhānupassī viharituṁ … abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ paṭinissaggānupassī viharituṁ".