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before him floating in the air. However, the hermit was so full of pride that he paid no respect. The Pacccekabuddha thus advised him: “I am a Pacccekabuddha. As for you, who will go on to be a fully-enlightened Buddha— why are you so afflicted by arrogance? Arrogance does not befit you.” However, the hermit still did not humble himself. Thus the Pacccekabuddha continued: “As a Pacccekabuddha, my attainment is by far superior to yours. If you doubt it, why don’t you try floating in the air like me?” The Pacccekabuddha rose in the air and floated away to the Himavanta forest. Consequently, the hermit was so humiliated that he realized he must devote himself to serious practice. He felt ashamed of his arrogance. Therefore, he took Eight Precepts and vowed not to go out to pick fruit again until by meditation he could overcome his False Views. Thus the pigeon practised to overcome lust, the snake to overcome anger, the jackal to overcome greed, the bear to overcome delusion and the hermit to overcome his arrogance. All these five sorts of practice are making effort representative of the second category of Right Effort on the worldly level arising from wholesome intention. 6.3 The Third Foundation of Effort The third foundation of effort is the development of virtues not yet done [bhavana-padhana]. There is an incident related in the Dhammapada which illustrates this sort of effort¹. ¹. DhaA.XVIII,2 170