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22 - The Downward Course - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two, the downward course. He who says what
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  Speaker 1: is not goes to hell. He also, who having done
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  Speaker 1: a thing, says I have not done it. After death,
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  Speaker 1: both are equal. They are men with evil deeds. In
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  Speaker 1: the next world. Many men whose shoulders are covered with
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  Speaker 1: the yellow gown are ill conditioned and unrestrained. Such evil doers,
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  Speaker 1: by their evil deeds, go to hell. Better it would
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  Speaker 1: be to swallow a heated iron ball like flaring fire,
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  Speaker 1: than that a bad, unrestrained fellow should live on the
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  Speaker 1: charity of the land. Four things does a reckless man
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  Speaker 1: gain who covets his neighbor's wife a bad reputation, an
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable bed, thirdly punishment, and lastly hell. There is bad
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  Speaker 1: reputation and the evil way to hell. There is the
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  Speaker 1: short pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened,
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  Speaker 1: and the king imposes heavy punishment. Therefore, let no man
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  Speaker 1: think of his neighbor's wife as a grass blade, if
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  Speaker 1: badly grasped cuts the arm. Badly practiced asceticism leads to hell.
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  Speaker 1: An act carelessly performed, a broken vow, and hesitating obedience
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  Speaker 1: to discipline. All this brings no great reward. If anything
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  Speaker 1: is to be done, let a man do it. Let
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  Speaker 1: him attack it vigorously. A careless pilgrim only scatters the
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  Speaker 1: dust of his passions. More widely, an evil deed is
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  Speaker 1: better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: A good deed is better done for having done it,
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  Speaker 1: one does not repent like a well guarded frontier, fought
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  Speaker 1: with defenses within and without. So Let a man god himself.
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  Speaker 1: Not a moment should escape, For they who allow the
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  Speaker 1: right moment to pass suffer pain when they are in hell.
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  Speaker 1: They who are ashamed of what they ought not to
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  Speaker 1: be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they
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  Speaker 1: ought to be ashamed of. Such men, in braining false
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  Speaker 1: doctrines enter the evil path. They who fear when they
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  Speaker 1: ought not to fear, and fear not when they ought
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  Speaker 1: to fear. Such men embracing false doctrines enter the evil path.
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  Speaker 1: They who forbid when there is nothing to be forbidden,
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  Speaker 1: and forbid not when there is something to be forbidden.
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  Speaker 1: Such men embracing false doctrines enter the evil path. They
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  Speaker 1: who know what is forbidden as forbidden, and what is
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  Speaker 1: not forbidden as not forbidden. Such men embracing the true doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the good path. End of chapter twenty two,