best of the virtues is freedom from attachment;best of the people is the one who sees.This is the path;there is no other that leads to the purifying of insight.Follow this path, and Mara will be confused.If you follow this path, you will end your suffering.This path was preached by mewhen I became aware of the…
one should neither kill nor cause killing.Everyone trembles at punishment; everyone loves life.Likening others to oneself,one should neither kill nor cause killing.Whoever seeking one’s own happinessinflicts pain on others who also want happinesswill not find happiness after death.Whoever seeking one’s own happinessdoes not inflict pain on others who also want happinesswill find happiness after death.Do…
who is freed from sorrow,who has freed oneself on all sides,who has thrown off all chains.The thoughtful exert themselves;they do not delight in a home;like swans who have left their lake,they leave their house and home.Those who have no accumulations, who eat properly,who have perceived release and unconditioned freedom,their path is difficult to understand,like that…
Long is the cycle of birth and deathto the fool who does not know the true path.If a traveller does not meet with one who is better or equal,let one firmly travel alone;there is no companionship with a fool.‘These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me;’with such thoughts a fool is tormented.One…
Who shall find the clear path of truth,as a skillful person finds the flower?The wise student will conquer this worldand the world of death and the gods.The wise student will find the clear path of truth,as a skillful person finds the flower.Whoever knows that this body is like foamand has learned that its nature is…
Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in thisworld, his sufferings increase like the abounding Birana grass.He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered inthis world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a lotus leaf.This salutary word I tell you, `Do ye, as many as are hereassembled, dig up the…
No sufferings touch the personwho is not attached to name and form,who calls nothing one’s own.Whoever restrains rising anger like a chariot gone astray,that one I call a real driver;others merely hold the reins.Overcome anger by love; overcome wrong by good;overcome the miserly by generosity, and the liar by truth.Speak the truth; do not yield…
forgetting true purpose and grasping at pleasure,will eventually envy the one who practices meditation.Let no one cling to what is pleasant or unpleasant.Not to see what is pleasant is painful,as it is to see what is unpleasant.Therefore do not become attached to anything;loss of what is loved is painful.Those who have neither likes nor dislikes…
Let us live in joy,free from disease among those who are diseased.Among those who are diseased, let us live free of disease.Let us live in joy, free from greed among the greedy.Among those who are greedy, we live free of greed.Let us live in joy, though we possess nothing.Let us live feeding on joy, like…
follow that wise personas you would one who reveals hidden treasures;you will be better not worse for following that one.Let one admonish; let one teach; let one forbid the wrong;and one will be loved by the good and hated by the bad.Do not have wrong-doers for friends;do not have despicable people for friends;have virtuous people…
