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04 - Flowers - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, flowers, who shall overcome this earth and the
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  Speaker 1: world of Yama, the Lord of the Departed, and the
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  Speaker 1: world of the gods. Who shall find out the plainly
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  Speaker 1: shown path of virtue as a clever man finds out
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  Speaker 1: the right flower, the disciple will overcome the earth and
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  Speaker 1: the world of Yama and the world of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: The disciple will find out the plainly shown path of
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  Speaker 1: virtue as a clever man finds out the right flower.
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  Speaker 1: He who knows that this body is like froth, and
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  Speaker 1: has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage,
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  Speaker 1: will break the flower pointed arrow of Mara and never
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  Speaker 1: see the king of death. Death carries off a man
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  Speaker 1: who is gathering flower and whose mind is distracted, as
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  Speaker 1: a flood carries off a sleeping village. Death subdues a
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  Speaker 1: man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted,
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  Speaker 1: before he is satiated in his pleasures, as the bee
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  Speaker 1: collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower or its
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  Speaker 1: color or scent. So let a sage dwell in his village,
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  Speaker 1: not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission
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  Speaker 1: or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a
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  Speaker 1: sage take notice of. Like a beautiful flower full of
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  Speaker 1: color but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words
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  Speaker 1: of him who does not act accordingly. But like a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful flower, full of color and full of scent, are
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  Speaker 1: the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a
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  Speaker 1: heap of flowers, so many good things may be achieved
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  Speaker 1: by a mortal when once he is born. The scent
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  Speaker 1: of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor that
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  Speaker 1: of sandalwood, or of tagara and malika flowers. But the
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  Speaker 1: odor of good people travels even against the wind. A
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  Speaker 1: good man pervades every place sandalwood or tagara, a lotus
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  Speaker 1: flower or a vasiki. Among these sorts of perfumes, the
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  Speaker 1: perfume of virtue is unsurpassed. Mean is the scent that
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  Speaker 1: comes from tagara and sandal wood. The perfume of those
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  Speaker 1: who possess virtue rises up to the gods as the
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  Speaker 1: highest of the people who possess these virtues, who live
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  Speaker 1: without thoughtlessness, and who are emancipated through true knowledge. Mara,
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  Speaker 1: the tempter never finds the way as on a heap
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  Speaker 1: of rubbish cast upon the highway, the lily will grow
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  Speaker 1: full of sweet perfume and delight. Thus the disciple of
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  Speaker 1: the truly enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among
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  Speaker 1: those who are like rubbish, among the people that walk
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  Speaker 1: in darkness. End of Chapter four