Upāsakavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Sagāthāvaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 15 · Section 674

[674] "Faith (saddhā) is the seed, austerity (tapo) the rain; wisdom (paññā) is my yoke and plough; moral shame (hirī) is the pole, mind (mano) the yoke-tie; mindfulness (sati) is my ploughshare and goad. Guarded in body, guarded in speech, restrained with regard to food for the belly, I make truth (sacca) my weeding-hook; gentleness (soracca) is my unyoking. Energy (vīriya) is my burden-bearing ox, carrying me to security from bondage (yogakkhema); it goes on without turning back, to where, having gone, one does not sorrow. Thus is this ploughing ploughed; it has the Deathless (amata) as its fruit. Having ploughed this ploughing, one is freed from all suffering (dukkha)." "Let Master Gotama eat! Master Gotama is a ploughman, since Master Gotama ploughs even the ploughing that has the Deathless as its fruit."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.