{
  "dhp157:0.1": "Minor Collection ",
  "dhp157:0.2": "Sayings of the Dhamma 157–166 ",
  "dhp157:0.3": "12. The Self ",
  "dhp157:0.4": "",
  "dhp157:1": "If you knew your self as beloved, ",
  "dhp157:2": "you’d look after it so well. ",
  "dhp157:3": "In one of the night’s three watches, ",
  "dhp157:4": "an astute person would remain alert. ",
  "dhp158:0": "",
  "dhp158:1": "The astute would avoid being corrupted ",
  "dhp158:2": "by first grounding themselves ",
  "dhp158:3": "in what is suitable, ",
  "dhp158:4": "and then instructing others. ",
  "dhp159:0": "",
  "dhp159:1": "If one were to treat oneself ",
  "dhp159:2": "as one instructs another, ",
  "dhp159:3": "the well-tamed indeed would tame: ",
  "dhp159:4": "for the self, it seems, is hard to tame. ",
  "dhp160:0": "",
  "dhp160:1": "One is indeed the lord of oneself, ",
  "dhp160:2": "for who else would be one’s lord? ",
  "dhp160:3": "By means of a well-tamed self, ",
  "dhp160:4": "one gains a lord that’s rare indeed. ",
  "dhp161:0": "",
  "dhp161:1": "For the evil that is done by oneself, ",
  "dhp161:2": "born and produced in oneself, ",
  "dhp161:3": "grinds down a simpleton, ",
  "dhp161:4": "as diamond grinds a lesser gem. ",
  "dhp162:0": "",
  "dhp162:1": "One choked by immorality, ",
  "dhp162:2": "as a sal tree by a creeper, ",
  "dhp162:3": "does to themselves ",
  "dhp162:4": "what a foe only wishes. ",
  "dhp163:0": "",
  "dhp163:1": "It’s easy to do bad things ",
  "dhp163:2": "harmful to oneself, ",
  "dhp163:3": "but good things that are helpful ",
  "dhp163:4": "are the hardest things to do. ",
  "dhp164:0": "",
  "dhp164:1": "On account of wicked views—",
  "dhp164:2": "scorning the guidance ",
  "dhp164:3": "of the perfected ones, ",
  "dhp164:4": "the noble ones living righteously—",
  "dhp164:5": "the idiot begets their own self’s demise, ",
  "dhp164:6": "like the bamboo bearing fruit. ",
  "dhp165:0": "",
  "dhp165:1": "For it is by oneself that evil’s done, ",
  "dhp165:2": "one is corrupted by oneself. ",
  "dhp165:3": "It’s by oneself that evil’s not done, ",
  "dhp165:4": "one is purified by oneself. ",
  "dhp165:5": "Purity and impurity are personal matters, ",
  "dhp165:6": "no one can purify another. ",
  "dhp166:0": "",
  "dhp166:1": "Never neglect what is good for yourself ",
  "dhp166:2": "for the sake of another, however great. ",
  "dhp166:3": "Knowing well what is good for yourself, ",
  "dhp166:4": "be intent upon your heart’s goal. ",
  "dhp166:5": ""
}