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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.
In the same way, a mendicant with eleven qualities can’t meditate observing impermanence in the eye …
… meditate observing suffering … … not-self … … ending … … vanishing … … fading away … … cessation … … letting go …”
Numbered Discourses 11.30–69 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on the Ear, Etc.
… “… ear … nose … tongue … body … mind …”
Numbered Discourses 11.70–117 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Sights, Etc.
… “… sights … sounds … smells … tastes … touches … ideas …”
Numbered Discourses 11.118–165 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Eye Consciousness, Etc.
… “… eye consciousness … ear consciousness … nose consciousness … tongue consciousness … body consciousness … mind consciousness. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.166–213 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Eye Contact, Etc.
… “… eye contact … ear contact … nose contact … tongue contact … body contact … mind contact. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.214–261 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Feeling Born of Eye Contact, Etc.
… “… feeling born of eye contact … feeling born of ear contact … feeling born of nose contact … feeling born of tongue contact … feeling born of body contact … feeling born of mind contact …”
Numbered Discourses 11.262–309 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Perception of Sights, Etc.
… “… perception of sights … perception of sounds … perception of smells … perception of tastes … perception of touches … perception of ideas. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.310–357 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Intention Regarding Sights, Etc.
… “… intention regarding sights … intention regarding sounds … intention regarding smells … intention regarding tastes … intention regarding touches … intention regarding ideas. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.358–405 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Craving For Sights, Etc.
… “… craving for sights … craving for sounds … craving for smells … craving for tastes … craving for touches … craving for ideas. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.406–453 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Thoughts About Sights, Etc.
… “… thoughts about sights … thoughts about sounds … thoughts about smells … thoughts about tastes … thoughts about touches … thoughts about ideas. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.454–501 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on Considerations Regarding Sights, Etc.
… “… considerations regarding sights … considerations regarding sounds … considerations regarding smells … considerations regarding tastes … considerations regarding touches … meditate observing impermanence in considerations about ideas … meditate observing suffering … meditate observing not-self … meditate observing ending … meditate observing vanishing … meditate observing fading away … meditate observing cessation … meditate observing letting go. …”
Numbered Discourses 11.502–981 The First Fifty Similarity Untitled Discourses on the Eye, Etc.
“Mendicants, a cowherd with eleven factors can maintain and expand a herd of cattle. What eleven? It’s when a cowherd knows form …