7.
The Discourse on the Rat
107.
"There are, monks, these four mice.
What are the four?
A digger but not a dweller, a dweller but not a digger, neither a digger nor a dweller, both a digger and a dweller -
these, monks, are the four mice.
So too, monks, there are these four persons similar to mice existing and found in the world.
Which four?
A digger but not a dweller, a dweller but not a digger, neither a digger nor a dweller, both a digger and a dweller.
"And how, monks, is a person a digger but not a dweller? Here, monks, a certain person learns the Teaching thoroughly - discourse, mixed prose and verse, explanation, verse, inspired utterance, thus-it-is-said, birth story, wonderful phenomena, catechism. He does not understand as it really is: 'This is suffering'... etc. he does not understand as it really is: 'This is the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.' Thus, monks, a person is a digger but not a dweller. Just as that mouse, monks, is a digger but not a dweller; I say this person is similar to that, monks.
"And how, monks, is a person a dweller but not a digger? Here, monks, a certain person does not learn the Teaching thoroughly - discourse, mixed prose and verse, explanation, verse, inspired utterance, thus-it-is-said, birth story, wonderful phenomena, catechism. He understands as it really is: 'This is suffering'... etc. he understands as it really is: 'This is the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.' Thus, monks, a person is a dweller but not a digger. Just as that mouse, monks, is a dweller but not a digger; I say this person is similar to that, monks.
"And how, monks, is a person neither a digger nor a dweller? Here, monks, a certain person does not learn the Teaching thoroughly - discourse, mixed prose and verse, explanation, verse, inspired utterance, thus-it-is-said, birth story, wonderful phenomena, catechism. He does not understand as it really is: 'This is suffering'... etc. he does not understand as it really is: 'This is the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.' Thus, monks, a person is neither a digger nor a dweller. Just as that mouse, monks, is neither a digger nor a dweller; I say this person is similar to that, monks.
"And how, monks, is a person a maker of a deep hole and also a dweller? Here, monks, a certain person learns the Teaching thoroughly - discourse, mixed prose and verse, explanation, verse, inspired utterance, thus-it-is-said, birth story, wonderful phenomena, catechism. He understands as it really is: 'This is suffering'... etc. he understands as it really is: 'This is the practice leading to the cessation of suffering.' Thus, monks, a person is a maker of a deep hole and also a dweller. Just as that mouse, monks, is a maker of a deep hole and also a dweller; I say this person is similar to that, monks. These, monks, are the four persons similar to mice existing and found in the world." The seventh.