an9.35:1.1 “Mendicants, suppose there was a mountain cow who was foolish, incompetent, unskillful, and lacked common sense when roaming on rugged mountains.
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an9.35:1.2 She might think,
an9.35:1.3 ‘Why don’t I go somewhere I’ve never been before? I could eat grass and drink water that I’ve never tried before.’
an9.35:1.4 She’d take a step with a fore-hoof; but before it was properly set down, she’d lift up a hind-hoof.
an9.35:1.5 She wouldn’t go somewhere she’d never been before, or eat grass and drink water that she’d never tried before.
an9.35:1.6 And she’d never return safely to the place she had started from.
an9.35:1.8 Why is that?
an9.35:1.9 Because that mountain cow was foolish, incompetent, unskillful, and lacked common sense when roaming on rugged mountains.
an9.35:1.10 In the same way, some foolish, incompetent, unskillful mendicant, lacking common sense, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.
an9.35:1.11 But they don’t cultivate, develop, and make much of that basis; they don’t ensure it is properly stabilized.