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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Elevens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekādasakanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 5 of 6
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-11/5/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Elevens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekādasakanipāta, section 5. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-11/5/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Elevens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekādasakanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in elevens: eleven benefits of loving-kindness, and the eleven doors to the deathless.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 5. Untitled Discourses on the Eye · AN 11.22–11.29

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-11/5/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-11/5/#p-N

[¶0] AN 11.22

> Pali: AN 11.22

[¶1] “Mendicants, a cowherd with eleven factors can’t maintain and expand a herd of cattle. What eleven? It’s when a cowherd doesn’t know form, is unskilled in characteristics, doesn’t pick out flies’ eggs, doesn’t dress wounds, doesn’t spread smoke, doesn’t know the ford, doesn’t know satisfaction, doesn’t know the trail, is not skilled in pastures, milks dry, and doesn’t show extra respect to the bulls who are fathers and captains of the herd. A cowherd with these eleven factors can’t maintain and expand a herd of cattle.

> Pali: “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] In the same way, a mendicant with eleven qualities can’t meditate observing impermanence in the eye …

> Pali: Evamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekādasahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ aniccānupassī viharituṁ… pe…

[¶3] AN 11.23

> Pali: AN 11.23

[¶4] … meditate observing suffering …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ dukkhānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶5] AN 11.24

> Pali: AN 11.24

[¶6] … not-self …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ anattānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶7] AN 11.25

> Pali: AN 11.25

[¶8] … ending …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ khayānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶9] AN 11.26

> Pali: AN 11.26

[¶10] … vanishing …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ vayānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶11] AN 11.27

> Pali: AN 11.27

[¶12] … fading away …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ virāgānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶13] AN 11.28

> Pali: AN 11.28

[¶14] … cessation …

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ nirodhānupassī viharituṁ…

[¶15] AN 11.29

> Pali: AN 11.29

[¶16] … letting go …”

> Pali: abhabbo cakkhusmiṁ paṭinissaggānupassī viharituṁ”.