Early Buddhism
A Monkey
Makkaṭasutta
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- Pāli
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- Early Buddhist Texts
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- Early Buddhism
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The parable of the foolish monkey who gets trapped in tar when it ventures outside its ancestral territory. And what is a mendicant’s ancestral territory? The four kinds of mindfulness meditation.
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