10.
The Discourse on the Thoroughbred Horse
143.
"I will teach you, monks, three good thoroughbred horses and three good thoroughbred persons.
Listen to that, pay close attention;
I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"And which, monks, are the three good thoroughbred horses? Here, monks, a certain good thoroughbred horse... etc. is endowed with speed and endowed with beauty and endowed with height and girth. These, monks, are the three good thoroughbred horses.
"And which, monks, are the three good thoroughbred persons? Here, monks, a certain good thoroughbred person... etc. is endowed with speed and endowed with beauty and endowed with height and girth.
"And how, monks, is a good thoroughbred person... etc. endowed with speed and endowed with beauty and endowed with height and girth? Here, monks, a monk, with the elimination of the mental corruptions, in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge himself, having attained, dwells in the liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom that are without mental corruptions. This I say is his speed. But when asked a question about the higher teaching and higher discipline, he answers and does not evade. This I say is his beauty. And he is an obtainer of the requisites of robes, almsfood, lodging and medicine for the sick. This I say is his height and girth. Thus, monks, a good thoroughbred person is endowed with speed and endowed with beauty and endowed with height and girth. These, monks, are the three good thoroughbred persons." The tenth.