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04 - Flowers - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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