an.1.47 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

1.45–46

1.47. Soft

“Just as, of all trees, the balsam is foremost in terms of softness and pliancy, in the same way I don’t envision a single thing that, when developed & cultivated, is as soft & pliant as the mind. The mind, when developed & cultivated, is soft & pliant.”

- Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu

- Editor: Gabriel Laera

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“Just as, mendicants, the boxwood is said to be the best kind of tree in terms of its pliability and workability,
so too, I do not see a single thing that’s as pliable and workable as the mind, when it is developed and cultivated.
A mind that is developed and cultivated is pliable and workable.”