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20 - The Way - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter twenty. The way, the best of ways, is the eightfold,
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  the best of truths, the four words, the best of virtues, passionlessness,
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  the best of men. He who has eyes to see this is the
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  way. There is no other that leads to the purifying of intelligence. Go
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  on this way. Everything else is the deceit of Mara, the tempter.
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  If you go on this way, you will make an end of pain.
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  The way was preached by me when I had understood the removal of the thorns
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  in the flesh. You yourself must make an effort the Totargetas Buddhas are only
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  preachers. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of Marah.
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  All created things perish. He who knows this and sees this becomes passive
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  in pain. This is the way to purity. All created things are grief
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  and pain. He who knows this and sees this becomes passive in pain.
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  This is the way that leads to purity. All forms are unreal. He
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  who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain. This is the way that
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  leads to purity. He who does not rouse himself when it is time to
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  rise, who though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will
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  and thought are wea that lazy and idle man will never find the way to
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  knowledge. Watching his speech well restrained in mind, Let a man never commit
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  any wrong with his body. Let a man but keep these three roads of
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  action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the wise.
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  Through zeal. Knowledge is gotten. Through lack of zeal, knowledge is
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  lost. Let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus
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  place himself that knowledge may grow. Cut down the whole forest of lust,
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  not a tree. Only danger comes out of the forest of lust. When
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  you have cut down both the forest of lust and its undergrowth, then pictures,
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  you will be rid of the forest and free. So long as the
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  love of man towards women, even the smallest, is not destroyed, so
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  long is his mind in bondage, as the cough that drinks milk is to
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  its mother. Cut out the love of self like an autumn lotus. With
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  thy hand, cherish the road of peace Nirvana has been shown by Sugata Buddha.
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  Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in winter and summer.
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  Thus the fool meditates and does not think of his death. Death comes and
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  carries off that man praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted as
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  a flood carries off a sleeping village. Sons are no help, nor a
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  father, nor relations. There is no help from kinsfolk for one whom death
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  has seized. A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this should
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  quickly clear the way that leads to Nirvana. End of chapter twenty