Dhammapada - Chapter 21: Pakinnakavagga - Miscellaneous
- fdg sc Translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita.
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290If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise man renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. |
291Entangled by the bonds of hate, he who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred. |
292The cankers only increase for those who are arrogant and heedless, who leave undone what should be done and do what should not be done. |
293The cankers cease for those mindful and clearly comprehending ones who always earnestly practice mindfulness of the body, who do not resort to what should not be done, and steadfastly pursue what should be done. |
294Having slain mother (craving), father (self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism), and destroyed a country (sense organs and sense objects) together with its treasurer (attachment and lust), ungrieving goes the holy man. |
295Having slain mother, father, two brahman kings (two extreme views), and a tiger as the fifth (the five mental hindrances), ungrieving goes the holy man. |
296Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Buddha. |
297Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Dhamma. |
298Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Saṅgha. |
299Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice Mindfulness of the Body. |
300Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of non-violence. |
301Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of meditation. |
302Difficult is life as a monk; difficult is it to delight therein. Also difficult and sorrowful is the household life. Suffering comes from association with unequals; suffering comes from wandering in samsara. Therefore, be not an aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering. |
303He who is full of faith and virtue, and possesses good repute and wealth—he is respected everywhere, in whatever land he travels. |
304The good shine from afar, like the Himalaya mountains. But the wicked are unseen, like arrows shot in the night. |
305He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest. |