You stand at the threshold of your departure.Have you made provision for your journey?Make yourself an island; work hard; be wise.When your impurities are purged and you are free from guilt,you will enter into the heavenly world of the noble ones.Your life is coming to an end;you are in the presence of death.There is no…
Better than a thousand meaningless wordsis one sensible word if hearing it one becomes peaceful.Better than a thousand meaningless versesis one word of verse if hearing it one becomes peaceful.Better than reciting one hundred verses of meaningless wordsis one poem if hearing it one becomes peaceful.If a person were to conquer in battlea thousand times…
which is difficult to guard and difficult to restrain.Like a fish taken from its watery homeand thrown on the dry ground,our thought quivers all overin order to escape the dominion of Mara.It is good to control the mind,which is difficult to restrain, fickle, and wandering.A tamed mind brings happiness.Let the wise guard their thoughts,which are…
Whoever guides others by a procedurethat is nonviolent and fairis said to be a guardian of truth, wise and just.A person is not wise simply because one talks much.Whoever is patient, free from hate and fear,is said to be wise.A person is not a supporter of justicesimply because one talks much.Even if a person has…
They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamedelephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephantswith large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still.For with these animals does no man reach the untrodden country(Nirvana), where…
He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure forhimself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free fromhatred.What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done isdone; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.But they whose whole watchfulness is always directed to theirbody,…
Why do you not seek a light,you who are shrouded in darkness?Consider this dressed-up lump covered with wounds,joined with limbs, diseased, and full of many schemeswhich are neither permanent nor stable.This body is wearing out, a nest of diseases and frail;this heap of corruption falls apart; life ends in death.What pleasure is therefor one who…
Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evil-doers by their evil deeds go to hell.Better it would be to swallow a heated iron ball, like flaring fire, than that a bad unrestrained fellow should live on the charity of the land.Four things does a wreckless man gain…
Do not follow wrong ideas.Do not be attached to the world.Arise; do not be thoughtless.Follow the path of virtue.The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.Follow the path of virtue; do not follow the wrong path.The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.Look upon the world as…
In the body restraint is good, good is restraint in speech,in thought restraint is good, good is restraint in all things.A Bhikshu, restrained in all things, is freed from all pain.He who controls his hand,he who controls his feet,he who controls his speech,he who is well controlled,he who delights inwardly,who is collected,who is solitary and…
