sn47.8:3.1 That foolish, incompetent, unskillful cook doesn’t get presented with clothes, wages, or bonuses.
sn47.8:3.2 Why is that?
sn47.8:3.3 Because they don’t take their master’s hint.
sn47.8:3.4 In the same way, a foolish, incompetent, unskillful mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
sn47.8:3.5 As they meditate observing an aspect of the body, their mind doesn’t enter immersion, and their corruptions aren’t given up.
sn47.8:3.6 But they don’t take the hint.
sn47.8:3.7 They meditate observing an aspect of feelings …
sn47.8:3.8 mind …
sn47.8:3.9 principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
sn47.8:3.10 As they meditate observing an aspect of principles, the mind doesn’t enter immersion, and the corruptions aren’t given up.
sn47.8:3.11 But they don’t take the hint.