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21 - Miscellaneous - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one Miscellaneous. If by leaving a small pleasure
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  Speaker 1: one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave
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  Speaker 1: the small pleasure and look to the great. He who,
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  Speaker 1: by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself.
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  Speaker 1: He entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be
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  Speaker 1: free from hatred. What ought to be done is neglected,
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  Speaker 1: what ought not to be done is done. The desires
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  Speaker 1: of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. But they whose
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  Speaker 1: whole watchfulness is always directed to their body, who do
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  Speaker 1: not follow what ought not to be done, and who
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  Speaker 1: steadfastly do what ought to be done, the desires of
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  Speaker 1: such watchful and wise people will come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: A true Bromina goes scathless though he have killed father
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  Speaker 1: and mother, and two valiant kings, though he has destroyed
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom with all its subjects. A true Bramina goes scatheless,
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  Speaker 1: though he have killed father and mother, and two holy
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  Speaker 1: kings and an eminent man. Besides, the disciples of Gautema,
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  Speaker 1: Buddha are always well awake, and their thoughts day and
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  Speaker 1: night are always set on Buddha. The disciples of Gautimer
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  Speaker 1: are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night
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  Speaker 1: are always set on the law. The disciples of Gautimer
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  Speaker 1: are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night
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  Speaker 1: are always set on the church. The disciples of Gautama
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  Speaker 1: are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night
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  Speaker 1: are always set on their body. The disciples of Gautemer
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  Speaker 1: are always well awake, and their mind day and night
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  Speaker 1: always delights in compassion. The disciples of Gautama are always
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  Speaker 1: well awake, and their mind day and night always delights
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  Speaker 1: in meditation. It is hard to leave the world to
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  Speaker 1: become a friar. It is hard to enjoy the world.
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  Speaker 1: Hard is the monastery painful? Are the houses painful? It
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  Speaker 1: is to dwell with equals, to share everything in common.
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  Speaker 1: And the itinerary mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore, let
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  Speaker 1: no man be an itinerant mendicant, and he will not
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  Speaker 1: be beset with pain. Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated,
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  Speaker 1: and wealthy man chooses there he is respected. Good people
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  Speaker 1: shine from afar like the snowy mountains. Bad people are
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  Speaker 1: not seen like arrows shot by night. He alone, who
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  Speaker 1: without ceasing, practices the duty of sitting alone and sleeping alone,
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  Speaker 1: he subduing himself, will rejoice in the destruction of all
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  Speaker 1: desires alone, as if living in a forest. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one