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The First Discourse on the Thoroughbred
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"Monks, a king's good thoroughbred horse possessed of six factors is worthy of a king, fit for a king's use, and is reckoned as a factor of the king himself.
With which six? Here, monks, a king's good thoroughbred horse is patient with visible forms, patient with sounds, patient with odours, patient with flavours, patient with tangibles, and is endowed with beauty. Monks, a king's good thoroughbred horse possessed of these six factors is worthy of a king, fit for a king's use, and is reckoned as a factor of the king himself.
So too, monks, a monk possessed of six qualities is worthy of offerings, etc. an unsurpassed field of merit for the world. With which six? Here, monks, a monk is patient with visible forms, patient with sounds, patient with odours, patient with flavours, patient with tangibles, patient with mental phenomena. Monks, a monk possessed of these six qualities is worthy of offerings, etc. an unsurpassed field of merit for the world." The fifth.