# Dhammapada — English (Bhikkhu Sujato, CC0) · SuttaCentral bilara-data (published) · seat EA-CORPORA-02/17

dhp1:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp1:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 1–20
dhp1:0.3	1. Pairs
dhp1:1	Intention is the leader of things;
dhp1:2	intention is first, they’re made by intention.
dhp1:3	If with corrupt intent
dhp1:4	you speak or act,
dhp1:5	suffering follows you,
dhp1:6	like a wheel, the ox’s foot.
dhp2:1	Intention is the leader of things;
dhp2:2	intention is first, they’re made by intention.
dhp2:3	If with pure intent
dhp2:4	you speak or act,
dhp2:5	happiness follows you
dhp2:6	like a shadow that never leaves.
dhp3:1	“They abused me, they hit me!
dhp3:2	They beat me, they robbed me!”
dhp3:3	For those who bear such a grudge,
dhp3:4	hatred is never laid to rest.
dhp4:1	“They abused me, they hit me!
dhp4:2	They beat me, they robbed me!”
dhp4:3	For those who bear no such grudge,
dhp4:4	hatred is laid to rest.
dhp5:1	For never is hatred
dhp5:2	laid to rest by hate,
dhp5:3	it’s laid to rest by love:
dhp5:4	this is an ancient teaching.
dhp6:1	When others do not understand,
dhp6:2	let us, who do understand this,
dhp6:3	restrain ourselves in this regard;
dhp6:4	for that is how conflicts are laid to rest.
dhp7:1	Those who contemplate the beautiful,
dhp7:2	their faculties unrestrained,
dhp7:3	immoderate in eating,
dhp7:4	lazy, lacking energy:
dhp7:5	Māra strikes them down
dhp7:6	like the wind, a feeble tree.
dhp8:1	Those who contemplate the ugly,
dhp8:2	their faculties well-restrained,
dhp8:3	eating in moderation,
dhp8:4	faithful and energetic:
dhp8:5	Māra cannot strike them down,
dhp8:6	like the wind, a rocky mountain.
dhp9:1	One who, not free of stains themselves,
dhp9:2	would wear the robe stained in ocher,
dhp9:3	bereft of self-control and truth:
dhp9:4	they are not worthy of the ocher robe.
dhp10:1	One who’s purged all their stains,
dhp10:2	steady in ethics,
dhp10:3	possessed of self-control and of truth,
dhp10:4	they are truly worthy of the ocher robe.
dhp11:1	Thinking the inessential is essential,
dhp11:2	seeing the essential as inessential;
dhp11:3	they don’t realize the essential,
dhp11:4	for wrong thoughts are their habitat.
dhp12:1	Having known the essential as essential,
dhp12:2	and the inessential as inessential;
dhp12:3	they realize the essential,
dhp12:4	for right thoughts are their habitat.
dhp13:1	Just as rain seeps into
dhp13:2	a poorly roofed house,
dhp13:3	lust seeps into
dhp13:4	an undeveloped mind.
dhp14:1	Just as rain doesn’t seep into
dhp14:2	a well roofed house,
dhp14:3	lust doesn’t seep into
dhp14:4	a well developed mind.
dhp15:1	Here they grieve, hereafter they grieve,
dhp15:2	an evildoer grieves in both places.
dhp15:3	They grieve and fret,
dhp15:4	seeing their own corrupt deeds.
dhp16:1	Here they rejoice, hereafter they rejoice,
dhp16:2	one who does good rejoices in both places.
dhp16:3	They rejoice and celebrate,
dhp16:4	seeing their own pure deeds.
dhp17:1	Here they’re tormented, <j>hereafter they’re tormented,
dhp17:2	an evildoer is tormented in both places.
dhp17:3	They’re tormented <j>thinking of bad things they’ve done;
dhp17:4	when gone to a bad place, <j>they’re tormented all the more.
dhp18:1	Here they delight, hereafter they delight,
dhp18:2	one who does good delights in both places.
dhp18:3	They delight thinking of good things they’ve done;
dhp18:4	when gone to a good place, they delight all the more.
dhp19:1	Much though they may recite scripture,
dhp19:2	if a negligent person does not apply them,
dhp19:3	then, like a cowherd who counts the cattle of others,
dhp19:4	they miss out on the blessings of the ascetic life.
dhp20:1	Little though they may recite scripture,
dhp20:2	if they live in line with the teaching,
dhp20:3	having given up greed, hate, and delusion,
dhp20:4	with deep understanding and heart well freed,
dhp20:5	not grasping to this life or the next,
dhp20:6	they share in the blessings of the ascetic life.
dhp21:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp21:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 21–32
dhp21:0.3	2. Diligence
dhp21:1	Heedfulness is the state free of death;
dhp21:2	heedlessness is the state of death.
dhp21:3	The heedful do not die,
dhp21:4	while the heedless are like the dead.
dhp22:1	Understanding this distinction
dhp22:2	when it comes to heedfulness,
dhp22:3	the astute rejoice in heedfulness,
dhp22:4	happy in the noble ones’ domain.
dhp23:1	They who regularly meditate,
dhp23:2	always staunchly vigorous;
dhp23:3	the attentive realize extinguishment,
dhp23:4	the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.
dhp24:1	For the hard-working and mindful,
dhp24:2	pure of deed and attentive,
dhp24:3	restrained, living righteously, and diligent,
dhp24:4	their reputation only grows.
dhp25:1	By hard work and diligence,
dhp25:2	by restraint and by self-control,
dhp25:3	a smart person would build an island
dhp25:4	that the floods cannot overflow.
dhp26:1	Fools and simpletons
dhp26:2	devote themselves to negligence.
dhp26:3	But the wise protect diligence
dhp26:4	as their best treasure.
dhp27:1	Don’t devote yourself to negligence,
dhp27:2	or delight in erotic intimacy.
dhp27:3	For if you’re diligent and meditate,
dhp27:4	you’ll attain abundant happiness.
dhp28:1	When the astute dispel negligence
dhp28:2	by means of diligence,
dhp28:3	ascending the palace of wisdom,
dhp28:4	sorrowless, they behold this generation of sorrow,
dhp28:5	as an attentive one on a mountain top
dhp28:6	beholds the fools below.
dhp29:1	Heedful among the heedless,
dhp29:2	wide awake while others sleep—
dhp29:3	a true sage leaves them behind,
dhp29:4	like a swift horse passing a feeble.
dhp30:1	Maghavā became chief of the gods
dhp30:2	by means of diligence.
dhp30:3	People praise diligence,
dhp30:4	while negligence is always deplored.
dhp31:1	A mendicant who loves diligence,
dhp31:2	seeing fear in negligence—
dhp31:3	advances like fire,
dhp31:4	burning up fetters big and small.
dhp32:1	A mendicant who loves diligence,
dhp32:2	seeing fear in negligence—
dhp32:3	such a one can’t decline,
dhp32:4	and has drawn near to extinguishment.
dhp33:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp33:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 33–43
dhp33:0.3	3. The Mind
dhp33:1	The mind quivers and quakes,
dhp33:2	hard to guard, hard to curb.
dhp33:3	The discerning straighten it out,
dhp33:4	like a fletcher an arrow.
dhp34:1	Like a fish pulled from the sea
dhp34:2	and cast upon the shore,
dhp34:3	this mind flounders about,
dhp34:4	trying to throw off Māra’s dominion.
dhp35:1	Hard to hold back, flighty,
dhp35:2	alighting where it will;
dhp35:3	it’s good to tame the mind;
dhp35:4	a tamed mind leads to bliss.
dhp36:1	So hard to see, so subtle,
dhp36:2	alighting where it will;
dhp36:3	the discerning protect the mind,
dhp36:4	a guarded mind leads to bliss.
dhp37:1	The mind travels far, wandering alone;
dhp37:2	incorporeal, it lies hidden in the heart.
dhp37:3	Those who will restrain the mind
dhp37:4	are freed from Māra’s bonds.
dhp38:1	Those of unsteady mind,
dhp38:2	who don’t understand the true teaching,
dhp38:3	and whose confidence wavers,
dhp38:4	do not perfect their wisdom.
dhp39:1	One whose mind is not festering,
dhp39:2	whose heart is undamaged,
dhp39:3	who’s given up right and wrong,
dhp39:4	alert, has nothing to fear.
dhp40:1	Knowing this body breaks like a pot,
dhp40:2	and fortifying the mind like a citadel,
dhp40:3	attack Māra with the sword of wisdom,
dhp40:4	guard your conquest, and never settle.
dhp41:1	All too soon this body
dhp41:2	will lie upon the earth,
dhp41:3	bereft of consciousness,
dhp41:4	tossed aside like a worthless log.
dhp42:1	A wrongly directed mind
dhp42:2	would do you more harm
dhp42:3	than a hater to the hated,
dhp42:4	or an enemy to their foe.
dhp43:1	A rightly directed mind
dhp43:2	would do you more good
dhp43:3	than your mother or father
dhp43:4	or any other relative.
dhp44:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp44:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 44–59
dhp44:0.3	4. Flowers
dhp44:1	Who bestirs this earth,
dhp44:2	and the Yama realm with its gods?
dhp44:3	Who sets out the well-taught word of truth,
dhp44:4	as an expert a flower?
dhp45:1	A trainee bestirs this earth,
dhp45:2	and the Yama realm with its gods.
dhp45:3	A trainee sets out the well-taught word of truth,
dhp45:4	as an expert a flower.
dhp46:1	Knowing this body’s like foam,
dhp46:2	realizing it’s all just a mirage,
dhp46:3	and cutting off Māra’s blossoming,
dhp46:4	vanish from the King of Death.
dhp47:1	As a mighty flood sweeps off a sleeping village,
dhp47:2	death steals away a man
dhp47:3	even as he gathers flowers,
dhp47:4	his mind caught up in them.
dhp48:1	The terminator gains control of the man
dhp48:2	who has not had his fill of pleasures,
dhp48:3	even as he gathers flowers,
dhp48:4	his mind caught up in them.
dhp49:1	A bee takes the nectar
dhp49:2	and moves on, doing no damage
dhp49:3	to the flower’s beauty and fragrance;
dhp49:4	and that’s how a sage should walk in the village.
dhp50:1	Don’t find fault with others,
dhp50:2	with what they’ve done or left undone.
dhp50:3	You should only watch yourself,
dhp50:4	what you’ve done or left undone.
dhp51:1	Just like a glorious flower
dhp51:2	that’s colorful but lacks fragrance;
dhp51:3	eloquent speech is fruitless
dhp51:4	for one who does not act on it.
dhp52:1	Just like a glorious flower
dhp52:2	that’s both colorful and fragrant,
dhp52:3	eloquent speech is fruitful
dhp52:4	for one who acts on it.
dhp53:1	Just as one would create many garlands
dhp53:2	from a heap of flowers,
dhp53:3	when a person has come to be born,
dhp53:4	they should do many skillful things.
dhp54:1	The fragrance of flowers doesn’t spread upwind,
dhp54:2	nor sandalwood, pinwheel, or jasmine;
dhp54:3	but the fragrance of the good spreads upwind;
dhp54:4	a true person’s virtue spreads in every direction.
dhp55:1	Among all the fragrances—
dhp55:2	sandalwood or pinwheel
dhp55:3	or lotus or jasmine—
dhp55:4	the fragrance of virtue is supreme.
dhp56:1	Faint is the fragrance
dhp56:2	of sandal or pinwheel;
dhp56:3	but the fragrance of the virtuous
dhp56:4	floats to the highest gods.
dhp57:1	For those accomplished in ethics,
dhp57:2	meditating diligently,
dhp57:3	freed through the highest knowledge,
dhp57:4	Māra cannot find their path.
dhp58:1	From a heap of trash
dhp58:2	discarded on the highway,
dhp58:3	a lotus might blossom,
dhp58:4	fragrant and delightful.
dhp59:1	So too, among those thought of as trash,
dhp59:2	a disciple of the perfect Buddha
dhp59:3	outshines with their wisdom
dhp59:4	the blind ordinary folk.
dhp60:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp60:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 60–75
dhp60:0.3	5. The Fool
dhp60:1	Long is the night for the wakeful;
dhp60:2	long is the league for the weary;
dhp60:3	long transmigrate the fools
dhp60:4	who don’t understand the true teaching.
dhp61:1	If while wandering you find no partner
dhp61:2	equal or better than yourself,
dhp61:3	then firmly resolve to wander alone—
dhp61:4	there’s no fellowship with fools.
dhp62:1	“Sons are mine, wealth is mine”—
dhp62:2	thus the fool frets.
dhp62:3	For even your self is not your own,
dhp62:4	let alone your sons or wealth.
dhp63:1	The fool who thinks they’re a fool
dhp63:2	is wise at least to that extent.
dhp63:3	But the true fool is said to be one
dhp63:4	who imagines that they are wise.
dhp64:1	Though a fool attends to the wise
dhp64:2	even for the rest of their life,
dhp64:3	they still don’t understand the teaching,
dhp64:4	like a spoon the taste of the soup.
dhp65:1	If a clever person attends to the wise
dhp65:2	even just for an hour or so,
dhp65:3	they swiftly understand the teaching,
dhp65:4	like a tongue the taste of the soup.
dhp66:1	Fools and simpletons behave
dhp66:2	like their own worst enemies,
dhp66:3	doing wicked deeds
dhp66:4	that ripen as bitter fruit.
dhp67:1	It’s not good to do a deed
dhp67:2	that plagues you later on,
dhp67:3	for which you weep and wail,
dhp67:4	as its effect stays with you.
dhp68:1	It is good to do a deed
dhp68:2	that doesn’t plague you later on,
dhp68:3	that gladdens and cheers,
dhp68:4	as its effect stays with you.
dhp69:1	The fool imagines that evil is sweet,
dhp69:2	so long as it has not yet ripened.
dhp69:3	But as soon as that evil ripens,
dhp69:4	they fall into suffering.
dhp70:1	Month after month a fool may eat
dhp70:2	food from a grass-blade’s tip;
dhp70:3	but they’ll never be worth a sixteenth part
dhp70:4	of one who has appraised the teaching.
dhp71:1	For a wicked deed that has been done
dhp71:2	does not curdle quickly like milk.
dhp71:3	Smoldering, it follows the fool,
dhp71:4	like a fire smothered over with ash.
dhp72:1	Whatever fame a fool may get,
dhp72:2	it only gives rise to harm.
dhp72:3	Whatever good features they have it ruins,
dhp72:4	and blows their head into bits.
dhp73:1	They’d seek the esteem that they lack,
dhp73:2	and status among the mendicants;
dhp73:3	authority over monasteries,
dhp73:4	and honor among other families.
dhp74:1	“Let both layfolk and renunciants think
dhp74:2	the work was done by me alone.
dhp74:3	In anything at all that’s to be done,
dhp74:4	let them fall under my sway alone.”
dhp74:5	So thinks the fool,
dhp74:6	their greed and pride only growing.
dhp75:1	For the means to profit and the path to quenching
dhp75:2	are two quite different things.
dhp75:3	A mendicant disciple of the Buddha,
dhp75:4	understanding what this really means,
dhp75:5	would never delight in honors,
dhp75:6	but rather would foster seclusion.
dhp76:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp76:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 76–89
dhp76:0.3	6. The Astute
dhp76:1	Regard one who sees your faults
dhp76:2	as a guide to a hidden treasure.
dhp76:3	Stay close to one so intelligent and astute
dhp76:4	who curbs you when you need it.
dhp76:5	Sticking close to such an impartial person,
dhp76:6	things get better, not worse.
dhp77:1	Advise and instruct;
dhp77:2	curb wickedness:
dhp77:3	for you shall be loved by the good,
dhp77:4	and disliked by the bad.
dhp78:1	Don’t mix with bad friends,
dhp78:2	nor with the worst of men.
dhp78:3	Mix with spiritual friends,
dhp78:4	and with the best of men.
dhp79:1	Through joy in the teaching you sleep at ease,
dhp79:2	with clear and confident heart.
dhp79:3	An astute person always delights in the teaching
dhp79:4	proclaimed by the Noble One.
dhp80:1	While irrigators guide water,
dhp80:2	fletchers bend arrows straight,
dhp80:3	and carpenters bend timber straight,
dhp80:4	the astute tame themselves.
dhp81:1	As the wind cannot stir
dhp81:2	a solid mass of rock,
dhp81:3	so too blame and praise
dhp81:4	do not affect the wise.
dhp82:1	Like a deep lake,
dhp82:2	clear and unclouded,
dhp82:3	so clear are the astute
dhp82:4	when they hear the teachings.
dhp83:1	True persons give up everything,
dhp83:2	they don’t cajole for the things they desire.
dhp83:3	Though touched by sadness or happiness,
dhp83:4	the astute appear neither depressed nor elated.
dhp84:1	Never wish for success by unjust means,
dhp84:2	for your own sake or that of another,
dhp84:3	desiring children, wealth, or nation;
dhp84:4	rather, be virtuous, wise, and just.
dhp85:1	Few are those among humans
dhp85:2	who cross to the far shore.
dhp85:3	The rest just run around
dhp85:4	on the near shore.
dhp86:1	When the teaching is well explained,
dhp86:2	the people who practice accordingly
dhp86:3	will cross over
dhp86:4	Death’s dominion so hard to pass.
dhp87:1	Rid of dark qualities,
dhp87:2	an astute person would develop the bright.
dhp87:3	Having left home for homelessness
dhp87:4	in seclusion, where joy is hard,
dhp88:1	they’d long for satisfaction there.
dhp88:2	Forsaking sensual pleasures, owning nothing,
dhp88:3	an astute person would cleanse themselves
dhp88:4	of mental corruptions.
dhp89:1	And those whose minds are rightly developed
dhp89:2	in the awakening factors;
dhp89:3	who, letting go of attachments,
dhp89:4	delight in not grasping:
dhp89:5	with defilements ended, brilliant,
dhp89:6	they are quenched in this world.
dhp90:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp90:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 90–99
dhp90:0.3	7. The Perfected Ones
dhp90:1	At journey’s end, rid of sorrow;
dhp90:2	everywhere free,
dhp90:3	all ties given up,
dhp90:4	no fever is found in them.
dhp91:1	The mindful apply themselves;
dhp91:2	they delight in no abode.
dhp91:3	Like a swan gone from the marsh,
dhp91:4	they leave home after home behind.
dhp92:1	Those with nothing stored up,
dhp92:2	who have understood their food,
dhp92:3	whose domain is the liberation
dhp92:4	of the signless and the empty:
dhp92:5	their path is hard to trace,
dhp92:6	like birds in the sky.
dhp93:1	One whose defilements have ended;
dhp93:2	who’s not attached to food;
dhp93:3	whose domain is the liberation
dhp93:4	of the signless and the empty:
dhp93:5	their track is hard to trace,
dhp93:6	like birds in the sky.
dhp94:1	Whose faculties have become serene,
dhp94:2	like horses tamed by a charioteer,
dhp94:3	who has abandoned conceit and defilements;
dhp94:4	the unaffected one is envied by even the gods.
dhp95:1	Undisturbed like the earth,
dhp95:2	true to their vows, steady as Indra’s pillar,
dhp95:3	like a lake clear of mud;
dhp95:4	such a one does not transmigrate.
dhp96:1	Their mind is peaceful,
dhp96:2	peaceful are their speech and deeds.
dhp96:3	Such a one is at peace,
dhp96:4	rightly freed through enlightenment.
dhp97:1	Lacking faith, a house-breaker,
dhp97:2	one who acknowledges nothing,
dhp97:3	purged of hope, they’ve wasted their chance:
dhp97:4	that is indeed the supreme person!
dhp98:1	Whether in village or wilderness,
dhp98:2	in a valley or the uplands,
dhp98:3	wherever the perfected ones live
dhp98:4	is a delightful place.
dhp99:1	Delightful are the wildernesses
dhp99:2	where no people delight.
dhp99:3	Those free of greed will delight there,
dhp99:4	not those who seek sensual pleasures.
dhp100:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp100:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 100–115
dhp100:0.3	8. The Thousands
dhp100:1	Better than a thousand
dhp100:2	meaningless sayings
dhp100:3	is a single meaningful saying,
dhp100:4	hearing which brings you peace.
dhp101:1	Better than a thousand
dhp101:2	meaningless verses
dhp101:3	is a single meaningful verse,
dhp101:4	hearing which brings you peace.
dhp102:1	Better than reciting
dhp102:2	a hundred meaningless verses
dhp102:3	is a single saying of Dhamma,
dhp102:4	hearing which brings you peace.
dhp103:1	The supreme conqueror is
dhp103:2	not he who conquers a million men in battle,
dhp103:3	but he who conquers a single man:
dhp103:4	himself.
dhp104:1	It is surely better to conquer oneself
dhp104:2	than all those other folk.
dhp104:3	When a person has tamed themselves,
dhp104:4	always living restrained,
dhp105:1	no god nor centaur,
dhp105:2	nor Māra nor divinity,
dhp105:3	can undo the victory
dhp105:4	of such a personage.
dhp106:1	Rather than a thousandfold sacrifice,
dhp106:2	every month for a full century,
dhp106:3	it’s better to honor for a single hour
dhp106:4	one who has developed themselves.
dhp106:5	That offering is better
dhp106:6	than the hundred year sacrifice.
dhp107:1	Rather than serve the sacred flame
dhp107:2	in the forest for a hundred years,
dhp107:3	it’s better to honor for a single hour
dhp107:4	a personage who has developed themselves.
dhp107:5	That offering is better
dhp107:6	than the hundred year sacrifice.
dhp108:1	Whatever sacrifice or offering in the world
dhp108:2	a seeker of merit may make for a year,
dhp108:3	none of it is worth a quarter
dhp108:4	of bowing to the sincere.
dhp109:1	For one in the habit of bowing,
dhp109:2	always honoring the elders,
dhp109:3	four blessings grow:
dhp109:4	lifespan, beauty, happiness, and strength.
dhp110:1	Better to live a single day
dhp110:2	ethical and absorbed in meditation
dhp110:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp110:4	unethical and lacking immersion.
dhp111:1	Better to live a single day
dhp111:2	wise and absorbed in meditation
dhp111:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp111:4	witless and lacking immersion.
dhp112:1	Better to live a single day
dhp112:2	energetic and strong,
dhp112:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp112:4	lazy and lacking energy.
dhp113:1	Better to live a single day
dhp113:2	seeing rise and fall
dhp113:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp113:4	blind to rise and fall.
dhp114:1	Better to live a single day
dhp114:2	seeing the state free of death
dhp114:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp114:4	blind to the state free of death.
dhp115:1	Better to live a single day
dhp115:2	seeing the supreme teaching
dhp115:3	than to live a hundred years
dhp115:4	blind to the supreme teaching.
dhp116:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp116:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 116–128
dhp116:0.3	9. Wickedness
dhp116:1	Rush to do good,
dhp116:2	shield your mind from evil;
dhp116:3	for when you’re slow to do good,
dhp116:4	your thoughts delight in wickedness.
dhp117:1	If you do something bad,
dhp117:2	don’t do it again and again,
dhp117:3	don’t set your heart on it,
dhp117:4	for piling up evil is suffering.
dhp118:1	If you do something good,
dhp118:2	do it again and again,
dhp118:3	set your heart on it,
dhp118:4	for piling up goodness is joyful.
dhp119:1	Even the wicked see good things,
dhp119:2	so long as their wickedness has not ripened.
dhp119:3	But as soon as that wickedness ripens,
dhp119:4	then the wicked see wicked things.
dhp120:1	Even the good see wicked things,
dhp120:2	so long as their goodness has not ripened.
dhp120:3	But as soon as that goodness ripens,
dhp120:4	then the good see good things.
dhp121:1	Think not lightly of evil,
dhp121:2	that it won’t come back to you.
dhp121:3	The pot is filled with water
dhp121:4	falling drop by drop;
dhp121:5	the fool is filled with wickedness
dhp121:6	piled up bit by bit.
dhp122:1	Think not lightly of goodness,
dhp122:2	that it won’t come back to you.
dhp122:3	The pot is filled with water
dhp122:4	falling drop by drop;
dhp122:5	the attentive one is filled with goodness
dhp122:6	piled up bit by bit.
dhp123:1	Avoid wickedness,
dhp123:2	as a merchant with rich cargo and small escort
dhp123:3	would avoid a dangerous road,
dhp123:4	or one who loves life would avoid drinking poison.
dhp124:1	You can carry poison in your hand
dhp124:2	if it has no wound,
dhp124:3	for poison does not infect without a wound;
dhp124:4	nothing bad happens unless you do bad.
dhp125:1	Whoever wrongs a man who has done no wrong,
dhp125:2	a pure man who has not a blemish,
dhp125:3	the evil backfires on the fool,
dhp125:4	like fine dust thrown upwind.
dhp126:1	Some are born in a womb;
dhp126:2	evildoers go to hell;
dhp126:3	the virtuous go to heaven;
dhp126:4	the undefiled are fully extinguished.
dhp127:1	Not in midair, nor mid-ocean,
dhp127:2	nor hiding in a mountain cleft;
dhp127:3	you’ll find no place on the planet
dhp127:4	to escape your wicked deeds.
dhp128:1	Not in midair, nor mid-ocean,
dhp128:2	nor hiding in a mountain cleft;
dhp128:3	you’ll find no place on the planet
dhp128:4	where you won’t be vanquished by death.
dhp129:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp129:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 129–145
dhp129:0.3	10. The Rod
dhp129:1	All tremble at the rod,
dhp129:2	all fear death.
dhp129:3	Treating others like oneself,
dhp129:4	neither kill nor incite to kill.
dhp130:1	All tremble at the rod,
dhp130:2	all love life.
dhp130:3	Treating others like oneself,
dhp130:4	neither kill nor incite to kill.
dhp131:1	Creatures love happiness,
dhp131:2	so if you harm them with a stick
dhp131:3	in search of your own happiness,
dhp131:4	after death you won’t find happiness.
dhp132:1	Creatures love happiness,
dhp132:2	so if you don’t harm them with a stick
dhp132:3	in search of your own happiness,
dhp132:4	after death you will find happiness.
dhp133:1	Don’t speak harshly,
dhp133:2	they may speak harshly back.
dhp133:3	For aggressive speech is painful,
dhp133:4	and the rod may spring back on you.
dhp134:1	If you still yourself
dhp134:2	like a broken gong,
dhp134:3	you reach extinguishment
dhp134:4	and know no conflict.
dhp135:1	As a cowherd drives the cows
dhp135:2	to pasture with the rod,
dhp135:3	so too old age and death
dhp135:4	drive life from living beings.
dhp136:1	The fool does not understand
dhp136:2	the evil that they do.
dhp136:3	But because of those deeds, that simpleton
dhp136:4	is tormented as if burnt by fire.
dhp137:1	One who violently attacks
dhp137:2	the peaceful and the innocent
dhp137:3	swiftly falls
dhp137:4	to one of ten bad states:
dhp138:1	harsh pain; loss;
dhp138:2	the breakup of the body;
dhp138:3	serious illness;
dhp138:4	mental distress;
dhp139:1	hazards from rulers;
dhp139:2	vicious slander;
dhp139:3	loss of kin;
dhp139:4	destruction of wealth;
dhp140:1	or else their home
dhp140:2	is consumed by fire.
dhp140:3	When their body breaks up, that witless person
dhp140:4	is reborn in hell.
dhp141:1	Not nudity, nor matted hair, nor mud,
dhp141:2	nor fasting, nor lying on bare ground,
dhp141:3	nor wearing dust and dirt, or squatting on the heels,
dhp141:4	will cleanse a mortal not free of doubt.
dhp142:1	Dressed up they may be, but if they live well—
dhp142:2	peaceful, tamed, committed to the spiritual path,
dhp142:3	having laid aside violence toward all creatures—
dhp142:4	they are a brahmin, an ascetic, a mendicant.
dhp143:1	Can a person constrained by conscience
dhp143:2	be found in the world?
dhp143:3	Who shies away from blame,
dhp143:4	like a fine horse from the whip?
dhp144:1	Like a fine horse under the whip,
dhp144:2	be keen and full of urgency.
dhp144:3	With faith, ethics, and energy,
dhp144:4	immersion, and investigation of principles,
dhp144:5	accomplished in knowledge and conduct, mindful,
dhp144:6	give up this vast suffering.
dhp145:1	While irrigators guide water,
dhp145:2	fletchers bend arrows straight,
dhp145:3	and carpenters bend timber straight,
dhp145:4	those true to their vows tame themselves.
dhp146:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp146:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 146–156
dhp146:0.3	11. Old Age
dhp146:1	What is joy, what is laughter,
dhp146:2	when the flames are ever burning?
dhp146:3	Swathed in darkness,
dhp146:4	would you not seek a light?
dhp147:1	See this fancy puppet,
dhp147:2	a body built of sores,
dhp147:3	diseased, obsessed over,
dhp147:4	in which nothing lasts at all.
dhp148:1	This body is decrepit and frail,
dhp148:2	a nest of disease.
dhp148:3	This foul carcass falls apart,
dhp148:4	for life ends in death.
dhp149:1	These dove-grey bones
dhp149:2	are tossed away like
dhp149:3	dried gourds in the autumn—
dhp149:4	what joy is there in such a sight?
dhp150:1	In this city built of bones,
dhp150:2	plastered with flesh and blood,
dhp150:3	old age and death are stashed away,
dhp150:4	along with conceit and contempt.
dhp151:1	Fancy chariots of kings wear out,
dhp151:2	and even this body gets old.
dhp151:3	But the truth of the good never gets old—
dhp151:4	so the good proclaim to the good.
dhp152:1	A person of little learning
dhp152:2	ages like an ox—
dhp152:3	their flesh grows,
dhp152:4	but not their wisdom.
dhp153:1	Transmigrating through countless rebirths,
dhp153:2	I’ve journeyed without reward,
dhp153:3	searching for the house-builder;
dhp153:4	painful is birth again and again.
dhp154:1	I’ve seen you, house-builder!
dhp154:2	You won’t build a house again!
dhp154:3	Your rafters are all broken,
dhp154:4	your roof-peak demolished.
dhp154:5	The mind, set on demolition,
dhp154:6	has reached the end of cravings.
dhp155:1	When young they spurned the spiritual path
dhp155:2	and failed to earn any wealth.
dhp155:3	Now they brood like old cranes
dhp155:4	in a pond bereft of fish.
dhp156:1	When young they spurned the spiritual path
dhp156:2	and failed to earn any wealth.
dhp156:3	Now they lie like spent arrows,
dhp156:4	bemoaning over things past.
dhp157:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp157:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 157–166
dhp157:0.3	12. The Self
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.
dhp158:1	The astute would avoid being corrupted
dhp158:2	by first grounding themselves
dhp158:3	in what is suitable,
dhp158:4	and then instructing others.
dhp159:1	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.
dhp160:1	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.
dhp161:1	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.
dhp162:1	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.
dhp163:1	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.
dhp164:1	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.
dhp165:1	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.
dhp166:1	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.
dhp167:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp167:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 167–178
dhp167:0.3	13. The World
dhp167:1	Don’t resort to lowly things,
dhp167:2	don’t abide in negligence,
dhp167:3	don’t resort to wrong views,
dhp167:4	don’t perpetuate the world.
dhp168:1	Get up, don’t be heedless,
dhp168:2	live by principle, with good conduct.
dhp168:3	For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
dhp168:4	in this world and the next.
dhp169:1	Live by principle, with good conduct,
dhp169:2	don’t conduct yourself badly.
dhp169:3	For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
dhp169:4	in this world and the next.
dhp170:1	Look upon the world
dhp170:2	as a bubble
dhp170:3	or a mirage,
dhp170:4	then the King of Death won’t see you.
dhp171:1	Come, see this world decked out
dhp171:2	like a fancy royal chariot.
dhp171:3	Here fools founder,
dhp171:4	but the discerning are not chained.
dhp172:1	He who once was heedless,
dhp172:2	but turned to heedfulness,
dhp172:3	shines upon this world
dhp172:4	like the moon freed from clouds.
dhp173:1	Someone whose bad deed
dhp173:2	is supplanted by the good,
dhp173:3	shines upon this world,
dhp173:4	like the moon freed from clouds.
dhp174:1	Blind is the world,
dhp174:2	few are those who clearly see.
dhp174:3	Only a handful go to heaven,
dhp174:4	like a bird freed from a net.
dhp175:1	Swans fly by the sun’s path,
dhp175:2	psychic sages fly through space.
dhp175:3	The attentive leave the world,
dhp175:4	having vanquished Māra with his legions.
dhp176:1	When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
dhp176:2	transgresses in just one thing—
dhp176:3	lying—
dhp176:4	there is no evil they would not do.
dhp177:1	The miserly don’t ascend to heaven,
dhp177:2	it takes a fool to not praise giving.
dhp177:3	The attentive celebrate giving,
dhp177:4	and so find happiness in the hereafter.
dhp178:1	The fruit of stream-entry is better
dhp178:2	than being the one king of the earth,
dhp178:3	than going to heaven,
dhp178:4	than lordship over all the world.
dhp179:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp179:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 179–196
dhp179:0.3	14. The Buddhas
dhp179:1	He whose victory may not be undone,
dhp179:2	a victory unrivaled in all the world;
dhp179:3	by what track would you trace that Buddha,
dhp179:4	who leaves no track in his infinite range?
dhp180:1	Of craving, the weaver, the clinger, he has none:
dhp180:2	so where can he be traced?
dhp180:3	By what track would you trace that Buddha,
dhp180:4	who leaves no track in his infinite range?
dhp181:1	The attentive intent on absorption,
dhp181:2	who love the peace of renunciation,
dhp181:3	the Buddhas, ever mindful,
dhp181:4	are envied by even the gods.
dhp182:1	It’s hard to gain a human birth;
dhp182:2	the life of mortals is hard;
dhp182:3	it’s hard to hear the true teaching;
dhp182:4	the arising of Buddhas is hard.
dhp183:1	Not to do any evil;
dhp183:2	to embrace the good;
dhp183:3	to purify one’s mind:
dhp183:4	this is the instruction of the Buddhas.
dhp184:1	Patient acceptance is the ultimate fervor.
dhp184:2	Extinguishment is the ultimate, say the Buddhas.
dhp184:3	No true renunciate injures another,
dhp184:4	nor does an ascetic hurt another.
dhp185:1	Not speaking ill nor doing harm;
dhp185:2	restraint in the monastic code;
dhp185:3	moderation in eating;
dhp185:4	staying in remote lodgings;
dhp185:5	commitment to the higher mind—
dhp185:6	this is the instruction of the Buddhas.
dhp186:1	Even if it were raining money,
dhp186:2	you’d not be sated in sensual pleasures.
dhp186:3	An astute person understands that sensual pleasures
dhp186:4	offer little gratification and much suffering.
dhp187:1	Thus they find no delight
dhp187:2	even in celestial pleasures.
dhp187:3	A disciple of the fully awakened Buddha
dhp187:4	delights in the ending of craving.
dhp188:1	So many go for refuge
dhp188:2	to mountains and forest groves,
dhp188:3	to shrines in tended parks;
dhp188:4	those people are driven by fear.
dhp189:1	But such refuge is no sanctuary,
dhp189:2	it is no supreme refuge.
dhp189:3	By going to that refuge,
dhp189:4	you’re not released from all suffering.
dhp190:1	One gone for refuge to the Buddha,
dhp190:2	to his teaching and to the Saṅgha,
dhp190:3	sees the four noble truths
dhp190:4	with right understanding:
dhp191:1	suffering, suffering’s origin,
dhp191:2	suffering’s transcendence,
dhp191:3	and the noble eightfold path
dhp191:4	that leads to the stilling of suffering.
dhp192:1	Such refuge is a sanctuary,
dhp192:2	it is the supreme refuge.
dhp192:3	By going to that refuge,
dhp192:4	you’re released from all suffering.
dhp193:1	It’s hard to find a thoroughbred man:
dhp193:2	they’re not born just anywhere.
dhp193:3	A family where that attentive one is born
dhp193:4	prospers in happiness.
dhp194:1	Happy, the arising of Buddhas!
dhp194:2	Happy, the teaching of Dhamma!
dhp194:3	Happy is the harmony of the Saṅgha,
dhp194:4	and the striving of the harmonious is happy.
dhp195:1	When a person venerates the worthy—
dhp195:2	the Buddha or his disciple,
dhp195:3	who have transcended proliferation,
dhp195:4	and have left behind grief and lamentation,
dhp196:1	quenched, fearing nothing from any quarter—
dhp196:2	the merit of one venerating such as these,
dhp196:3	cannot be calculated by anyone,
dhp196:4	saying it is just this much.
dhp197:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp197:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 197–208
dhp197:0.3	15. Happiness
dhp197:1	Let us live so very happily,
dhp197:2	loving among the hostile.
dhp197:3	Among hostile humans,
dhp197:4	let us live with love.
dhp198:1	Let us live so very happily,
dhp198:2	healthy among the ailing.
dhp198:3	Among ailing humans
dhp198:4	let us live healthily.
dhp199:1	Let us live so very happily,
dhp199:2	content among the greedy.
dhp199:3	Among greedy humans,
dhp199:4	let us live content.
dhp200:1	Let us live so very happily,
dhp200:2	we who have nothing.
dhp200:3	We shall feed on rapture,
dhp200:4	like the gods of sublime luminosity.
dhp201:1	Victory breeds enmity;
dhp201:2	the defeated sleep badly.
dhp201:3	The peaceful sleep at ease,
dhp201:4	having left victory and defeat behind.
dhp202:1	There is no fire like greed,
dhp202:2	no crime like hate,
dhp202:3	no suffering like the aggregates,
dhp202:4	no bliss beyond peace.
dhp203:1	Hunger is the worst illness,
dhp203:2	conditions are the worst suffering.
dhp203:3	When one has known this as it is,
dhp203:4	extinguishment is the ultimate happiness.
dhp204:1	Health is the ultimate blessing;
dhp204:2	contentment, the ultimate wealth;
dhp204:3	trust is the ultimate family;
dhp204:4	extinguishment, the ultimate happiness.
dhp205:1	Having drunk the nectar of seclusion
dhp205:2	and the nectar of peace—
dhp205:3	free of stress, free of evil,
dhp205:4	drink the joyous nectar of truth.
dhp206:1	It’s good to see the noble ones,
dhp206:2	staying with them is always good.
dhp206:3	Were you not to see fools,
dhp206:4	you’d always be happy.
dhp207:1	For one who consorts with fools
dhp207:2	grieves long.
dhp207:3	Painful is living with fools,
dhp207:4	like being stuck with your enemy.
dhp207:5	Happy is living with an attentive one,
dhp207:6	like meeting with your kin.
dhp208:1	Therefore:
dhp208:2	An attentive one, wise and learned,
dhp208:3	a behemoth of virtue, true to their vows, noble:
dhp208:4	follow a true and intelligent person such as this,
dhp208:5	as the moon tracks the path of the stars.
dhp209:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp209:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 209–220
dhp209:0.3	16. The Beloved
dhp209:1	Applying yourself where you ought not,
dhp209:2	neglecting what you should be doing,
dhp209:3	forgetting your goal, you cling to what you hold dear,
dhp209:4	jealous of those devoted to their heart’s goal.
dhp210:1	Don’t ever get too close
dhp210:2	to those you like or dislike.
dhp210:3	For not seeing the liked is suffering,
dhp210:4	and so is seeing the disliked.
dhp211:1	Therefore don’t hold anything dear,
dhp211:2	for it’s bad to lose those you love.
dhp211:3	No ties are found in they who
dhp211:4	hold nothing loved or loathed.
dhp212:1	Sorrow springs from what we hold dear,
dhp212:2	fear springs from what we hold dear;
dhp212:3	one free from holding anything dear
dhp212:4	has no sorrow, let alone fear.
dhp213:1	Sorrow springs from attachment,
dhp213:2	fear springs from attachment;
dhp213:3	one free from attachment
dhp213:4	has no sorrow, let alone fear.
dhp214:1	Sorrow springs from relishing,
dhp214:2	fear springs from relishing;
dhp214:3	one free from relishing
dhp214:4	has no sorrow, let alone fear.
dhp215:1	Sorrow springs from desire,
dhp215:2	fear springs from desire;
dhp215:3	one free from desire
dhp215:4	has no sorrow, let alone fear.
dhp216:1	Sorrow springs from craving,
dhp216:2	fear springs from craving;
dhp216:3	one free from craving
dhp216:4	has no sorrow, let alone fear.
dhp217:1	One accomplished in virtue and vision,
dhp217:2	firmly principled, and truthful,
dhp217:3	doing oneself what ought be done:
dhp217:4	that’s who the people love.
dhp218:1	One eager to realize the ineffable
dhp218:2	would be filled with awareness.
dhp218:3	Their mind not bound to pleasures of sense,
dhp218:4	they’re said to be heading upstream.
dhp219:1	When a man returns safely
dhp219:2	after a long time spent abroad,
dhp219:3	family, friends, and loved ones
dhp219:4	celebrate his return.
dhp220:1	Just so, when one who has done good
dhp220:2	goes from this world to the next,
dhp220:3	their good deeds receive them there,
dhp220:4	as family welcomes home one they love.
dhp221:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp221:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 221–234
dhp221:0.3	17. Anger
dhp221:1	Give up anger, get rid of conceit,
dhp221:2	and escape every fetter.
dhp221:3	Sufferings don’t befall one who has nothing,
dhp221:4	not clinging to name and form.
dhp222:1	When anger surges like a lurching chariot,
dhp222:2	keep it in check.
dhp222:3	That’s what I call a charioteer;
dhp222:4	others just hold the reins.
dhp223:1	Defeat anger with kindness,
dhp223:2	villainy with virtue,
dhp223:3	stinginess with giving,
dhp223:4	and lies with truth.
dhp224:1	Speak the truth, do not be angry,
dhp224:2	and give when asked, if only a little.
dhp224:3	By these three means,
dhp224:4	you may enter the presence of the gods.
dhp225:1	Those harmless sages,
dhp225:2	always restrained in body,
dhp225:3	go to the state that does not pass,
dhp225:4	where there is no sorrow.
dhp226:1	Always wakeful,
dhp226:2	practicing night and day,
dhp226:3	focused only on extinguishment,
dhp226:4	their defilements come to an end.
dhp227:1	It’s always been this way, Atula,
dhp227:2	it’s not just today.
dhp227:3	They blame you when you’re silent,
dhp227:4	they blame you when you speak a lot,
dhp227:5	and even when you speak just right:
dhp227:6	no one in the world escapes blame.
dhp228:1	There never was, nor will be,
dhp228:2	nor is there today,
dhp228:3	someone who is wholly praised
dhp228:4	or wholly blamed.
dhp229:1	If, after watching them day in day out,
dhp229:2	discerning people praise
dhp229:3	that sage of impeccable conduct,
dhp229:4	endowed with ethics and wisdom;
dhp230:1	like a pendant of Black Plum River gold,
dhp230:2	who is worthy to criticize them?
dhp230:3	Even the gods praise them,
dhp230:4	and by the Divinity, too, they’re praised.
dhp231:1	Guard against ill-tempered deeds,
dhp231:2	be restrained in body.
dhp231:3	Giving up bad bodily conduct,
dhp231:4	conduct yourself well in body.
dhp232:1	Guard against ill-tempered words,
dhp232:2	be restrained in speech.
dhp232:3	Giving up bad verbal conduct,
dhp232:4	conduct yourself well in speech.
dhp233:1	Guard against ill-tempered thoughts,
dhp233:2	be restrained in mind.
dhp233:3	Giving up bad mental conduct,
dhp233:4	conduct yourself well in mind.
dhp234:1	An attentive one is restrained in body
dhp234:2	restrained also in speech,
dhp234:3	in thought, too, they are restrained:
dhp234:4	they are restrained in every way.
dhp235:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp235:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 235–255
dhp235:0.3	18. Stains
dhp235:1	Today you’re like a withered leaf,
dhp235:2	Yama’s men await you.
dhp235:3	You stand at the departure gates,
dhp235:4	yet you have no supplies for the road.
dhp236:1	Make an island of yourself!
dhp236:2	Swiftly strive, learn to be wise!
dhp236:3	Purged of stains, flawless,
dhp236:4	you’ll go to the heavenly realm of the noble ones.
dhp237:1	You’ve journeyed the stages of life,
dhp237:2	and now you set out to meet Yama.
dhp237:3	Along the way there’s nowhere to stay,
dhp237:4	yet you have no supplies for the road.
dhp238:1	Make an island of yourself!
dhp238:2	Swiftly strive, learn to be wise!
dhp238:3	Purged of stains, flawless,
dhp238:4	you’ll not come again to rebirth and old age.
dhp239:1	A smart person would purge
dhp239:2	their own stains gradually,
dhp239:3	bit by bit, moment by moment,
dhp239:4	like a smith smelting silver.
dhp240:1	It is the rust born on the iron
dhp240:2	that eats away the place it arose.
dhp240:3	And so it is their own deeds
dhp240:4	that lead the overly-ascetic to a bad place.
dhp241:1	Not rehearsing is the stain of hymns.
dhp241:2	The stain of houses is neglect.
dhp241:3	Laziness is the stain of beauty.
dhp241:4	A guard’s stain is negligence.
dhp242:1	Misconduct is a woman’s stain.
dhp242:2	A giver’s stain is stinginess.
dhp242:3	Bad qualities are a stain
dhp242:4	in this world and the next.
dhp243:1	But a worse stain than these
dhp243:2	is ignorance, the worst stain of all.
dhp243:3	Having given up that stain,
dhp243:4	be without stains, mendicants!
dhp244:1	Life is easy for the shameless.
dhp244:2	With all the rude courage of a crow,
dhp244:3	they live pushy,
dhp244:4	rude, and corrupt.
dhp245:1	Life is hard for the conscientious,
dhp245:2	always seeking purity,
dhp245:3	neither clinging nor rude,
dhp245:4	pure of livelihood and discerning.
dhp246:1	Take anyone in this world
dhp246:2	who kills living creatures,
dhp246:3	speaks falsely, steals,
dhp246:4	commits adultery,
dhp247:1	and indulges in drinking
dhp247:2	beer and wine.
dhp247:3	Right here they dig up
dhp247:4	the root of their own self.
dhp248:1	Know this, my man:
dhp248:2	they are unrestrained and wicked.
dhp248:3	Don’t let that greed and unrighteousness
dhp248:4	inflict pain on you for long.
dhp249:1	The people give according to their faith,
dhp249:2	according to their confidence.
dhp249:3	If you get upset over that,
dhp249:4	over others’ food and drink,
dhp249:5	you’ll not, by day or by night,
dhp249:6	become immersed in samādhi.
dhp250:1	Those who have cut that out,
dhp250:2	dug it up at the root, eradicated it,
dhp250:3	they will, by day or by night,
dhp250:4	become immersed in samādhi.
dhp251:1	There is no fire like greed,
dhp251:2	no crime like hate,
dhp251:3	no net like delusion,
dhp251:4	no river like craving.
dhp252:1	It’s easy to see the faults of others,
dhp252:2	hard to see one’s own.
dhp252:3	For the faults of others
dhp252:4	are tossed high like hay,
dhp252:5	while one’s own are hidden,
dhp252:6	as a cheat hides a bad hand.
dhp253:1	When you look for the flaws of others,
dhp253:2	always finding fault,
dhp253:3	your defilements only grow,
dhp253:4	you’re far from ending defilements.
dhp254:1	In the atmosphere there is no track,
dhp254:2	there’s no true ascetic outside here.
dhp254:3	People enjoy proliferation,
dhp254:4	the Realized Ones are free of proliferation.
dhp255:1	In the atmosphere there is no track,
dhp255:2	there’s no true ascetic outside here.
dhp255:3	No conditions last forever,
dhp255:4	the Awakened Ones are not shaken.
dhp256:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp256:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 256–272
dhp256:0.3	19. The Just
dhp256:1	You don’t become just
dhp256:2	by passing hasty judgment.
dhp256:3	An astute person evaluates both
dhp256:4	what is pertinent and what is irrelevant.
dhp257:1	A wise one judges others without haste,
dhp257:2	justly and impartially;
dhp257:3	that guardian of the law
dhp257:4	is said to be just.
dhp258:1	You’re not an astute scholar
dhp258:2	just because you speak a lot.
dhp258:3	One who is secure, free of enmity and fear,
dhp258:4	is said to be astute.
dhp259:1	You’re not one who has memorized the teaching
dhp259:2	just because you recite a lot.
dhp259:3	Someone who directly sees the teaching
dhp259:4	after hearing only a little
dhp259:5	is truly one who has memorized the teaching,
dhp259:6	for they can never forget it.
dhp260:1	You don’t become a senior
dhp260:2	by getting some grey hairs;
dhp260:3	for one ripe only in age,
dhp260:4	is said to have aged in vain.
dhp261:1	One who is truthful and principled,
dhp261:2	harmless, restrained, and self-controlled,
dhp261:3	attentive, purged of stains,
dhp261:4	is said to be a senior.
dhp262:1	Not by mere enunciation,
dhp262:2	or a beautiful complexion
dhp262:3	does a person become holy,
dhp262:4	if they’re jealous, stingy, and devious.
dhp263:1	But if they’ve cut that out,
dhp263:2	dug it up at the root, eradicated it,
dhp263:3	that intelligent one, purged of vice,
dhp263:4	is said to be holy.
dhp264:1	A liar and breaker of vows is no ascetic
dhp264:2	just because they shave their head.
dhp264:3	How on earth can one be an ascetic
dhp264:4	who’s full of desire and greed?
dhp265:1	One who stops all wicked deeds,
dhp265:2	great and small,
dhp265:3	because of stopping wicked deeds
dhp265:4	is said to be an ascetic.
dhp266:1	You don’t become a mendicant
dhp266:2	just by begging from others.
dhp266:3	One who has undertaken domestic duties
dhp266:4	has not yet become a mendicant.
dhp267:1	But one living a spiritual life,
dhp267:2	who has banished both merit and evil,
dhp267:3	who wanders having appraised the world,
dhp267:4	is said to be a mendicant.
dhp268:1	You don’t become a sage by being sagelike,
dhp268:2	while still confused and ignorant.
dhp268:3	The astute one who holds the scales,
dhp268:4	taking only the best,
dhp269:1	and shunning the bad—
dhp269:2	that is a sage, <j>and that is how one becomes a sage.
dhp269:3	One who sagely weighs both in the world,
dhp269:4	is thereby said to be a sage.
dhp270:1	You don’t become a noble one
dhp270:2	by harming living beings.
dhp270:3	One harmless toward all living beings
dhp270:4	is said to be a noble one.
dhp271:1	Not by precepts and observances,
dhp271:2	nor by much learning,
dhp271:3	nor by meditative immersion,
dhp271:4	nor by living in seclusion,
dhp272:1	do I experience the bliss of renunciation
dhp272:2	not frequented by ordinary people.
dhp272:3	A mendicant cannot rest confident
dhp272:4	without attaining the end of defilements.
dhp273:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp273:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 273–289
dhp273:0.3	20. The Path
dhp273:1	Of paths, the eightfold is the best;
dhp273:2	of truths, the four statements;
dhp273:3	dispassion is the best of things,
dhp273:4	and the Clear-eyed One is the best of humans.
dhp274:1	<em>This</em> is the path, there is no other
dhp274:2	for the purification of vision.
dhp274:3	You all must practice this,
dhp274:4	it is the way to baffle Māra.
dhp275:1	When you all are practicing this,
dhp275:2	you’ll make an end of suffering.
dhp275:3	I have explained the path to you
dhp275:4	for extracting the thorn with wisdom.
dhp276:1	You yourselves must do the work,
dhp276:2	the Realized Ones just show the way.
dhp276:3	Meditators practicing absorption
dhp276:4	are released from Māra’s bonds.
dhp277:1	All conditions are impermanent—
dhp277:2	when this is seen with wisdom,
dhp277:3	one grows disillusioned with suffering:
dhp277:4	this is the path to purity.
dhp278:1	All conditions are suffering—
dhp278:2	when this is seen with wisdom,
dhp278:3	one grows disillusioned with suffering:
dhp278:4	this is the path to purity.
dhp279:1	All things are not-self—
dhp279:2	when this is seen with wisdom,
dhp279:3	one grows disillusioned with suffering:
dhp279:4	this is the path to purity.
dhp280:1	They don’t get going when it’s time to start;
dhp280:2	they’re young and strong, but given to sloth.
dhp280:3	Their mind depressed in sunken thought,
dhp280:4	lazy and slothful, they can’t discern the path.
dhp281:1	Guarded in speech, restrained in mind,
dhp281:2	doing no unskillful bodily deed.
dhp281:3	Purify these three ways of performing deeds,
dhp281:4	and win the path known to seers.
dhp282:1	From meditation springs wisdom,
dhp282:2	without meditation, wisdom ends.
dhp282:3	Knowing these two paths—
dhp282:4	of progress and decline—
dhp282:5	you should conduct yourself
dhp282:6	so that wisdom grows.
dhp283:1	Cut down the jungle, not just a tree;
dhp283:2	from the jungle springs fear.
dhp283:3	Having cut down jungle and snarl,
dhp283:4	be free of jungles, mendicants!
dhp284:1	So long as the vine, no matter how small,
dhp284:2	that ties a man to women is not cut,
dhp284:3	his mind remains trapped,
dhp284:4	like a calf suckling its mother.
dhp285:1	Cut out affection for oneself,
dhp285:2	like plucking an autumn lotus.
dhp285:3	Foster only the path to peace,
dhp285:4	the extinguishment the Holy One taught.
dhp286:1	“Here I will stay for the rains;
dhp286:2	here for winter, here the summer”;
dhp286:3	thus the fool thinks,
dhp286:4	not realizing the danger.
dhp287:1	As a mighty flood sweeps away a sleeping village,
dhp287:2	death steals away a man
dhp287:3	who dotes on children and cattle,
dhp287:4	his mind caught up in them.
dhp288:1	Children provide you no shelter,
dhp288:2	nor does father, nor relatives.
dhp288:3	When you’re seized by the terminator,
dhp288:4	there’s no shelter in family.
dhp289:1	Knowing the reason for this,
dhp289:2	astute, and ethically restrained,
dhp289:3	one would quickly clear the path
dhp289:4	that leads to extinguishment.
dhp290:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp290:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 290–305
dhp290:0.3	21. Miscellaneous
dhp290:1	If by giving up material happiness
dhp290:2	one sees abundant happiness,
dhp290:3	the attentive would give up material happiness,
dhp290:4	seeing the abundant happiness.
dhp291:1	Seeking their own happiness
dhp291:2	by imposing suffering on others,
dhp291:3	intimate with enmity,
dhp291:4	they’re not freed from enmity.
dhp292:1	They dump what should be done,
dhp292:2	and do what should not be done.
dhp292:3	For the insolent and the negligent,
dhp292:4	their defilements only grow.
dhp293:1	Those that have properly undertaken
dhp293:2	constant mindfulness of the body,
dhp293:3	don’t cultivate what should not be done,
dhp293:4	but always do what should be done.
dhp293:5	Mindful and aware,
dhp293:6	their defilements come to an end.
dhp294:1	Having slain mother and father,
dhp294:2	and two aristocratic kings,
dhp294:3	and having wiped out <j>the kingdom with its tax collector,
dhp294:4	the brahmin walks on untroubled.
dhp295:1	Having slain mother and father,
dhp295:2	and two prosperous kings,
dhp295:3	and a tiger as the fifth,
dhp295:4	the brahmin walks on untroubled.
dhp296:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp296:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp296:3	who day and night
dhp296:4	constantly recollect the Buddha.
dhp297:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp297:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp297:3	who day and night
dhp297:4	constantly recollect the teaching.
dhp298:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp298:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp298:3	who day and night
dhp298:4	constantly recollect the Saṅgha.
dhp299:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp299:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp299:3	who day and night
dhp299:4	are constantly mindful of the body.
dhp300:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp300:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp300:3	whose minds day and night
dhp300:4	delight in harmlessness.
dhp301:1	The disciples of Gotama
dhp301:2	always wake up refreshed,
dhp301:3	whose minds day and night
dhp301:4	delight in meditation.
dhp302:1	Going forth is hard, it’s hard to be happy;
dhp302:2	life at home is hard too, and painful,
dhp302:3	it’s painful to stay when you’ve nothing in common.
dhp302:4	A traveler is a prey to pain,
dhp302:5	so don’t be a traveler,
dhp302:6	don’t be prey to pain.
dhp303:1	One who is faithful, accomplished in ethics,
dhp303:2	blessed with fame and wealth,
dhp303:3	is honored in whatever place
dhp303:4	they frequent.
dhp304:1	The good shine from afar,
dhp304:2	like the Himalayan peaks,
dhp304:3	but the wicked are not seen,
dhp304:4	like arrows scattered in the night.
dhp305:1	Sitting alone, sleeping alone,
dhp305:2	tirelessly wandering alone;
dhp305:3	one who tames themselves alone
dhp305:4	would delight within a forest.
dhp306:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp306:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 306–319
dhp306:0.3	22. Hell
dhp306:1	A liar goes to hell,
dhp306:2	as does one who denies what they did.
dhp306:3	Both are equal in the hereafter,
dhp306:4	those men of base deeds.
dhp307:1	Many who wear a scrap of ocher cloth
dhp307:2	are unrestrained and wicked.
dhp307:3	Being wicked, they are reborn in hell
dhp307:4	due to their bad deeds.
dhp308:1	It’d be better for the immoral and unrestrained
dhp308:2	to eat an iron ball,
dhp308:3	scorching, like a burning flame,
dhp308:4	than to eat the nation’s alms.
dhp309:1	Four things befall a heedless man
dhp309:2	who sleeps with another’s wife:
dhp309:3	wickedness, poor sleep,
dhp309:4	ill-repute, and rebirth in hell.
dhp310:1	He accrues wickedness and is reborn in a bad place,
dhp310:2	all so a frightened couple <j>may snatch a moment’s pleasure,
dhp310:3	for which rulers impose a heavy punishment.
dhp310:4	That’s why a man should not <j>sleep with another’s wife.
dhp311:1	When kusa grass is wrongly grasped
dhp311:2	it only cuts the hand.
dhp311:3	So too, the ascetic life, when wrongly taken,
dhp311:4	drags you to hell.
dhp312:1	Any lax act,
dhp312:2	any corrupt observance,
dhp312:3	or suspicious spiritual life,
dhp312:4	is not very fruitful.
dhp313:1	If one is to do what should be done,
dhp313:2	one should staunchly strive.
dhp313:3	For the life gone forth when laxly led
dhp313:4	just stirs up dust all the more.
dhp314:1	A bad deed is better left undone,
dhp314:2	for it will plague you later on.
dhp314:3	A good deed is better done,
dhp314:4	one that does not plague you.
dhp315:1	As a frontier city
dhp315:2	is guarded inside and out,
dhp315:3	so you should ward yourselves—
dhp315:4	don’t let the moment pass you by.
dhp315:5	For if you miss your moment
dhp315:6	you’ll grieve when sent to hell.
dhp316:1	Unashamed of what is shameful,
dhp316:2	ashamed of what is not shameful;
dhp316:3	beings who uphold wrong view
dhp316:4	go to a bad place.
dhp317:1	Seeing danger where there is none,
dhp317:2	and blind to the actual danger,
dhp317:3	beings who uphold wrong view
dhp317:4	go to a bad place.
dhp318:1	Seeing fault where there is none,
dhp318:2	and blind to the actual fault,
dhp318:3	beings who uphold wrong view
dhp318:4	go to a bad place.
dhp319:1	Knowing a fault as a fault
dhp319:2	and the faultless as faultless,
dhp319:3	beings who uphold right view
dhp319:4	go to a good place.
dhp320:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp320:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 320–333
dhp320:0.3	23. Elephants
dhp320:1	Like an elephant struck
dhp320:2	with arrows in battle,
dhp320:3	I shall endure abuse,
dhp320:4	for so many folk are badly behaved.
dhp321:1	The well-tamed beast is the one led to the crowd;
dhp321:2	the tamed elephant’s the one the king mounts;
dhp321:3	the tamed person who endures abuse
dhp321:4	is the best of human beings.
dhp322:1	Those who have tamed themselves are better
dhp322:2	than fine tamed mules,
dhp322:3	thoroughbreds from Sindh,
dhp322:4	or giant tuskers.
dhp323:1	For not on those mounts
dhp323:2	would you go to the untrodden place,
dhp323:3	whereas, with the help of one <j>whose self is well tamed,
dhp323:4	you go there, tamed by the tamed.
dhp324:1	The tusker named Dhanapāla
dhp324:2	is musky in rut, hard to control.
dhp324:3	Bound, he eats not a morsel,
dhp324:4	for he misses the elephant forest.
dhp325:1	One who gets drowsy from overeating,
dhp325:2	fond of sleep, rolling round the bed
dhp325:3	like a great hog stuffed with grain:
dhp325:4	that dullard returns to the womb again and again.
dhp326:1	In the past my mind wandered
dhp326:2	how it wished, where it liked, as it pleased.
dhp326:3	Now I’ll carefully guide it,
dhp326:4	as a trainer with a hook guides a rutting elephant.
dhp327:1	Delight in diligence!
dhp327:2	Take good care of your mind!
dhp327:3	Pull yourself out of this pit,
dhp327:4	like an elephant sunk in a bog.
dhp328:1	If you find an alert companion,
dhp328:2	an attentive friend to live happily together,
dhp328:3	then, overcoming all adversities,
dhp328:4	wander with them, joyful and mindful.
dhp329:1	If you find no alert companion,
dhp329:2	no attentive friend to live happily together,
dhp329:3	then, like a king who flees his conquered realm,
dhp329:4	wander alone like a tusker in the wilds.
dhp330:1	It’s better to wander alone,
dhp330:2	there’s no fellowship with fools.
dhp330:3	Wander alone and do no wrong,
dhp330:4	at ease like a tusker in the wilds.
dhp331:1	A friend in need is a blessing;
dhp331:2	it’s a blessing to be content with whatever;
dhp331:3	good deeds are a blessing at the end of life,
dhp331:4	and giving up all suffering is a blessing.
dhp332:1	In this world it’s a blessing to serve
dhp332:2	one’s mother and one’s father.
dhp332:3	And it’s a blessing also to serve
dhp332:4	ascetics and brahmins.
dhp333:1	It’s a blessing to keep precepts until you grow old;
dhp333:2	a blessing to be grounded in faith;
dhp333:3	the getting of wisdom’s a blessing;
dhp333:4	and it’s a blessing to avoid doing wrong.
dhp334:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp334:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 334–359
dhp334:0.3	24. Craving
dhp334:1	When a man lives heedlessly,
dhp334:2	craving grows in them like a camel’s foot creeper.
dhp334:3	They jump from one thing to the next, like a langur
dhp334:4	greedy for fruit in a forest grove.
dhp335:1	Whoever is beaten by this wretched craving,
dhp335:2	this attachment to the world,
dhp335:3	their sorrow grows,
dhp335:4	like grass in the rain.
dhp336:1	But whoever prevails over this wretched craving,
dhp336:2	so hard to get over in the world,
dhp336:3	their sorrows fall from them,
dhp336:4	like a drop from a lotus-leaf.
dhp337:1	I say this to you, good people,
dhp337:2	all those who have gathered here:
dhp337:3	dig up the root of craving,
dhp337:4	as you’d dig up grass in search of roots.
dhp337:5	Don’t let Māra break you again and again,
dhp337:6	like a stream breaking a reed.
dhp338:1	A tree grows back even when cut down,
dhp338:2	so long as its roots are strong and undamaged;
dhp338:3	suffering springs up again and again,
dhp338:4	so long as the tendency to craving is not pulled out.
dhp339:1	A person of low views
dhp339:2	in whom the thirty-six streams
dhp339:3	that flow to pleasure are mighty,
dhp339:4	is swept away by lustful thoughts.
dhp340:1	The streams flow everywhere;
dhp340:2	a weed springs up and remains.
dhp340:3	Seeing this weed that has been born,
dhp340:4	cut the root with wisdom.
dhp341:1	A personage’s joys
dhp341:2	flow from senses and cravings.
dhp341:3	Seekers of happiness, bent on pleasure,
dhp341:4	continue to be reborn and grow old.
dhp342:1	People governed by thirst,
dhp342:2	crawl about like a trapped rabbit.
dhp342:3	Bound and fettered, for a long time
dhp342:4	they return to pain time and again.
dhp343:1	People governed by thirst,
dhp343:2	crawl about like a trapped rabbit.
dhp343:3	That’s why one who longs for dispassion
dhp343:4	should dispel thirst.
dhp344:1	Unsnarled, they set out for the jungle,
dhp344:2	then they run right back to the jungle they left behind.
dhp344:3	Just look at this individual!
dhp344:4	Freed, they run to bondage.
dhp345:1	The attentive say that shackle is not strong
dhp345:2	that’s made of iron, wood, or knots.
dhp345:3	But obsession with jeweled earrings,
dhp345:4	concern for your partners and children:
dhp346:1	this, say the attentive, is a strong shackle
dhp346:2	dragging the indulgent down, hard to escape.
dhp346:3	Having cut this one too they go forth,
dhp346:4	unconcerned, having given up sensual pleasures.
dhp347:1	Besotted by lust they fall into the stream,
dhp347:2	like a spider caught in the web she wove.
dhp347:3	The attentive proceed, having cut this one too,
dhp347:4	unconcerned, having given up all suffering.
dhp348:1	Let go of the past, let go of the future,
dhp348:2	let go of the present, having gone beyond rebirth.
dhp348:3	With your heart freed in every respect,
dhp348:4	you’ll not come again to rebirth and old age.
dhp349:1	For a personage churned by thoughts,
dhp349:2	very lustful, focusing on beauty,
dhp349:3	their craving grows and grows,
dhp349:4	tying them with a stout bond.
dhp350:1	But one who loves to calm their thoughts,
dhp350:2	developing perception of ugliness, ever mindful,
dhp350:3	will surely eliminate that craving,
dhp350:4	cutting off the bonds of Māra.
dhp351:1	One who is confident, unafraid,
dhp351:2	rid of craving, free of blemish,
dhp351:3	having struck down the arrows flying to future lives,
dhp351:4	this bag of bones is their last.
dhp352:1	Rid of craving, free of grasping,
dhp352:2	expert in the definition of terms,
dhp352:3	knowing the correct
dhp352:4	structure and sequence of syllables,
dhp352:5	they are said to be one who bears their final body,
dhp352:6	one of great wisdom, a great person.
dhp353:1	I am the vanquisher of all, the knower of all,
dhp353:2	unsullied in the midst of all things.
dhp353:3	I’ve given up all, freed in the ending of craving.
dhp353:4	Since I know for myself, whose follower should I be?
dhp354:1	The gift of the teaching surmounts all other gifts;
dhp354:2	the taste of the teaching surmounts all other tastes;
dhp354:3	the joy of the teaching surmounts all other joys;
dhp354:4	the ending of craving surmounts all suffering.
dhp355:1	Riches ruin a simpleton,
dhp355:2	but not a seeker of the far shore.
dhp355:3	From craving for wealth, a simpleton
dhp355:4	ruins themselves and others.
dhp356:1	Weeds are the bane of crops,
dhp356:2	but greed is these folk’s bane.
dhp356:3	That’s why a gift to one rid of greed
dhp356:4	is so very fruitful.
dhp357:1	Weeds are the bane of crops,
dhp357:2	but hate is these folk’s bane.
dhp357:3	That’s why a gift to one rid of hate
dhp357:4	is so very fruitful.
dhp358:1	Weeds are the bane of crops,
dhp358:2	but delusion is these folk’s bane.
dhp358:3	That’s why a gift to one rid of delusion
dhp358:4	is so very fruitful.
dhp359:1	Weeds are the bane of crops,
dhp359:2	but desire is these folk’s bane.
dhp359:3	That’s why a gift to one rid of desire
dhp359:4	is so very fruitful.
dhp360:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp360:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 360–382
dhp360:0.3	25. Mendicants
dhp360:1	Restraint of the eye is good;
dhp360:2	good is restraint of the ear;
dhp360:3	restraint of the nose is good;
dhp360:4	good is restraint of the tongue.
dhp361:1	Restraint of the body is good;
dhp361:2	good is restraint of speech;
dhp361:3	restraint of mind is good;
dhp361:4	everywhere, restraint is good.
dhp361:5	The mendicant restrained everywhere
dhp361:6	is released from all suffering.
dhp362:1	One restrained in hand and foot,
dhp362:2	and in speech, the supreme restraint;
dhp362:3	happy inside, serene,
dhp362:4	solitary, content, I call a mendicant.
dhp363:1	When a mendicant of restrained mouth,
dhp363:2	thoughtful in counsel, not restless,
dhp363:3	explains the text and its meaning,
dhp363:4	their words are sweet.
dhp364:1	Delighting in the teaching, enjoying the teaching,
dhp364:2	contemplating the teaching,
dhp364:3	a mendicant who recollects the teaching
dhp364:4	doesn’t fall away from the true teaching.
dhp365:1	A well-off mendicant ought not look down
dhp365:2	on others, nor should they be envious.
dhp365:3	A mendicant who envies others
dhp365:4	does not achieve immersion.
dhp366:1	If a mendicant is poor in offerings,
dhp366:2	the well-to-do ought not look down on them.
dhp366:3	For the gods indeed praise them,
dhp366:4	who are tireless and pure of livelihood.
dhp367:1	One who has no sense of ownership
dhp367:2	in the whole realm of name and form,
dhp367:3	who does not grieve for that which is not,
dhp367:4	is said to be a mendicant.
dhp368:1	A mendicant who meditates on love,
dhp368:2	devoted to the Buddha’s teaching,
dhp368:3	would realize the peaceful state,
dhp368:4	the blissful stilling of conditions.
dhp369:1	Bail out this boat, mendicant!
dhp369:2	When bailed out it will float lightly.
dhp369:3	Having cut off desire and hate,
dhp369:4	you shall reach extinguishment.
dhp370:1	Five to cut, five to drop,
dhp370:2	and five more to develop.
dhp370:3	When a mendicant slips five chains
dhp370:4	they’re said to have crossed the flood.
dhp371:1	Practice absorption, don’t be negligent!
dhp371:2	Don’t let the mind delight in the senses!
dhp371:3	Don’t heedlessly swallow a hot iron ball!
dhp371:4	And when it burns, don’t cry, “Oh, the pain!”
dhp372:1	No absorption for one without wisdom,
dhp372:2	no wisdom for one without absorption.
dhp372:3	But one with absorption and wisdom—
dhp372:4	they have truly drawn near to extinguishment.
dhp373:1	A mendicant who enters an empty hut
dhp373:2	with mind at peace
dhp373:3	finds a superhuman delight
dhp373:4	as they rightly discern the Dhamma.
dhp374:1	Whenever they are mindful
dhp374:2	of the rise and fall of the aggregates,
dhp374:3	they feel rapture and joy:
dhp374:4	that is freedom from death for one who knows.
dhp375:1	This is the very start of the path
dhp375:2	for a wise mendicant here:
dhp375:3	guarding the senses, contentment,
dhp375:4	and restraint in the monastic code.
dhp376:1	Mix with spiritual friends,
dhp376:2	who are tireless and pure of livelihood.
dhp376:3	Share what you have with others,
dhp376:4	being skillful in your conduct.
dhp376:5	And when you’re full of joy,
dhp376:6	you’ll make an end to suffering.
dhp377:1	As a jasmine sheds
dhp377:2	its withered flowers,
dhp377:3	O mendicants,
dhp377:4	shed greed and hate.
dhp378:1	Calm in body, calm in speech,
dhp378:2	peaceful and serene;
dhp378:3	a mendicant who’s spat out the world’s bait
dhp378:4	is said to be one at peace.
dhp379:1	Urge yourself on,
dhp379:2	reflect on yourself.
dhp379:3	A mendicant self-controlled and mindful
dhp379:4	will always dwell in happiness.
dhp380:1	Self is indeed the lord of self,
dhp380:2	for who else would be one’s lord?
dhp380:3	Self is indeed the home of self,
dhp380:4	so restrain yourself,
dhp380:5	as a merchant his thoroughbred steed.
dhp381:1	A monk full of joy
dhp381:2	trusting in the Buddha’s teaching,
dhp381:3	would realize the peaceful state,
dhp381:4	the blissful stilling of conditions.
dhp382:1	A young mendicant
dhp382:2	devoted to the Buddha’s teaching,
dhp382:3	shines upon this world,
dhp382:4	like the moon freed from clouds.
dhp383:0.1	Minor Collection
dhp383:0.2	Sayings of the Dhamma 383–423
dhp383:0.3	26. Brahmins
dhp383:1	Cut the stream, striving!
dhp383:2	Cast aside sensual pleasures, brahmin.
dhp383:3	Knowing the ending of conditions,
dhp383:4	know the uncreated, brahmin.
dhp384:1	When a brahmin has gone beyond
dhp384:2	dualistic phenomena,
dhp384:3	then they consciously
dhp384:4	make an end of all fetters.
dhp385:1	One for whom there is no crossing over
dhp385:2	or crossing back, or crossing over and back;
dhp385:3	stress-free, detached,
dhp385:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp386:1	Absorbed, rid of hopes,
dhp386:2	their task completed, without defilements,
dhp386:3	arrived at the highest goal:
dhp386:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp387:1	The sun blazes by day,
dhp387:2	the moon radiates at night,
dhp387:3	the aristocrat shines in armor,
dhp387:4	and the brahmin shines in absorption.
dhp387:5	But all day and all night,
dhp387:6	the Buddha blazes with glory.
dhp388:1	A brahmin’s so-called <j>since they’ve banished evil,
dhp388:2	an ascetic’s so-called <j>since they live a serene life.
dhp388:3	One who has renounced all stains
dhp388:4	is said to be a “renunciant”.
dhp389:1	One should never strike a brahmin,
dhp389:2	nor should a brahmin retaliate.
dhp389:3	Woe to the one who hurts a brahmin,
dhp389:4	and woe for the one who retaliates.
dhp390:1	Nothing is better for a brahmin
dhp390:2	than to hold their mind back from attachment.
dhp390:3	From wherever a cruel wish recoils,
dhp390:4	right there suffering subsides.
dhp391:1	Who does nothing wrong
dhp391:2	by body, speech or mind,
dhp391:3	restrained in these three respects,
dhp391:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp392:1	You should graciously honor
dhp392:2	the one from whom you learn the Dhamma
dhp392:3	taught by the awakened Buddha,
dhp392:4	as a brahmin honors the sacred flame.
dhp393:1	Not by matted hair or family,
dhp393:2	or birth is one a brahmin.
dhp393:3	Those who are  truthful and principled:
dhp393:4	they are pure, they are brahmins.
dhp394:1	Why the matted hair, you simpleton,
dhp394:2	and why the skin of deer?
dhp394:3	The tangle is inside you,
dhp394:4	yet you polish up your outsides.
dhp395:1	A personage who wears robes of rags,
dhp395:2	lean, their limbs showing veins,
dhp395:3	meditating alone in the forest,
dhp395:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp396:1	I don’t call someone a brahmin
dhp396:2	after the mother’s womb they’re born from.
dhp396:3	If they still have attachments,
dhp396:4	they’re just someone who says “worthy”.
dhp396:5	Having nothing, taking nothing:
dhp396:6	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp397:1	Having cut off all fetters
dhp397:2	they have no anxiety.
dhp397:3	They’ve slipped their chains and are detached:
dhp397:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp398:1	They’ve cut the strap and harness,
dhp398:2	the halter and bridle too,
dhp398:3	with cross-bar lifted, they’re awakened:
dhp398:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp399:1	Abuse, killing, caging:
dhp399:2	they endure these without anger.
dhp399:3	Patience is their powerful army:
dhp399:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp400:1	Not irritable or pretentious,
dhp400:2	dutiful in precepts and observances,
dhp400:3	tamed, bearing their final body:
dhp400:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp401:1	Like water from a lotus leaf,
dhp401:2	like a mustard seed off the point of a pin,
dhp401:3	sensual pleasures slip off them:
dhp401:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp402:1	They understand for themselves
dhp402:2	the end of suffering in this life;
dhp402:3	with burden put down, detached:
dhp402:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp403:1	Deep in wisdom, intelligent,
dhp403:2	expert in the path and what is not the path;
dhp403:3	arrived at the highest goal:
dhp403:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp404:1	Mixing with neither
dhp404:2	householders nor the homeless;
dhp404:3	a migrant with no bastion, few in wishes:
dhp404:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp405:1	They’ve laid aside violence
dhp405:2	against creatures firm and frail;
dhp405:3	not killing or making others kill:
dhp405:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp406:1	Not fighting among those who fight,
dhp406:2	quenched among those who have taken up arms,
dhp406:3	not grasping among those who grasp:
dhp406:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp407:1	They’ve discarded greed and hate,
dhp407:2	along with conceit and contempt,
dhp407:3	like a mustard seed off the point of a pin:
dhp407:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp408:1	The words they utter
dhp408:2	are polished, informative, and true,
dhp408:3	and don’t offend anyone:
dhp408:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp409:1	They don’t steal anything in the world,
dhp409:2	long or short,
dhp409:3	tiny or huge, beautiful or ugly:
dhp409:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp410:1	They have no hope
dhp410:2	in this world or the next;
dhp410:3	with no need for hope, detached:
dhp410:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp411:1	They have no clinging,
dhp411:2	knowledge has freed them of indecision,
dhp411:3	they’ve arrived at the objective, freedom from death:
dhp411:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp412:1	They’ve escaped the chain
dhp412:2	of both good and bad deeds;
dhp412:3	sorrowless, stainless, pure:
dhp412:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp413:1	Pure as the spotless moon,
dhp413:2	clear and unclouded,
dhp413:3	they’ve ended relish for rebirth:
dhp413:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp414:1	They’ve got past this grueling swamp
dhp414:2	of delusion, transmigration.
dhp414:3	Meditating in stillness, free of indecision,
dhp414:4	they have crossed over to the far shore.
dhp414:5	They’re quenched by not grasping:
dhp414:6	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp415:1	They’ve given up sensual pleasures,
dhp415:2	and have gone forth from lay life;
dhp415:3	they’ve ended rebirth in the sensual realm:
dhp415:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp416:1	They’ve given up craving,
dhp416:2	and have gone forth from lay life;
dhp416:3	they’ve ended craving to be reborn:
dhp416:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp416:5.1	They’ve given up craving,
dhp416:6	and have gone forth from lay life;
dhp416:7	they’ve ended craving to be reborn:
dhp416:8	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp417:1	They’ve thrown off the human yoke,
dhp417:2	and slipped out of the heavenly yoke;
dhp417:3	unyoked from all yokes:
dhp417:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp418:1	Giving up desire and discontent,
dhp418:2	they’re cooled and free of attachments;
dhp418:3	a hero, master of the whole world:
dhp418:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp419:1	They know the passing away
dhp419:2	and rebirth of all beings;
dhp419:3	unattached, holy, awakened:
dhp419:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp420:1	Gods, centaurs, and humans
dhp420:2	don’t know their destiny;
dhp420:3	the perfected ones with defilements ended:
dhp420:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp421:1	They have nothing before or after,
dhp421:2	or even in between.
dhp421:3	Having nothing, taking nothing:
dhp421:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp422:1	Captain of the herd, excellent hero,
dhp422:2	great seer and victor;
dhp422:3	unstirred, washed, awakened:
dhp422:4	that’s who I declare a brahmin.
dhp423:1	One who knows their past lives,
dhp423:2	sees heaven and places of loss,
dhp423:3	and has attained the end of rebirth;
dhp423:4	a sage of perfect insight
dhp423:5	at the summit of spiritual perfection:
dhp423:57	The Sayings of the Dhamma are complete.
dhp423:6	that’s who I declare a brahmin.