an11.9:3.1 And how does a thoroughbred meditate?
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an11.9:3.2 A fine thoroughbred, tied up by the feeding trough, doesn’t meditate: ‘Fodder, fodder!’
an11.9:3.3 Why is that?
an11.9:3.4 Because it occurs to the fine thoroughbred tied up by the feeding trough:
an11.9:3.5 ‘What task will the horse trainer have me do today? How should I respond?’
an11.9:3.6 Tied up by the feeding trough they don’t meditate: ‘Fodder, fodder!’
an11.9:3.7 For that fine thoroughbred regards the use of the goad as a debt, a bond, a loss, a misfortune.
an11.9:3.8 In the same way, take a certain fine thoroughbred person who has gone to the forest, the root of a tree, or an empty hut. Their heart is not overcome and mired in sensual desire, and they truly understand the escape from sensual desire that has arisen.
an11.9:3.9 Their heart is not overcome by ill will …
an11.9:3.10 dullness and drowsiness …
an11.9:3.11 restlessness and remorse …
an11.9:3.12 doubt …
an11.9:3.13 They don’t meditate dependent on earth, water, fire, and air. They don’t meditate dependent on the dimension of infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness, or neither perception nor non-perception. They don’t meditate dependent on this world or the other world. They don’t meditate dependent on what is seen, heard, thought, known, attained, sought, or explored by the mind.
an11.9:3.14 Yet they do meditate.
an11.9:3.15 When a fine thoroughbred meditates like this, the gods together with Indra, the Divinity, and the Progenitor worship them from afar: