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18 - Impurity - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen Impurity. Thou art now like a sere leaf.
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  Speaker 1: The messengers of death Yama have come near to thee.
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  Speaker 1: Thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou
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  Speaker 1: hast no provision for thy journey. Make thyself an island.
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  Speaker 1: Work hard, be wise. When thy impurities are blown away,
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  Speaker 1: and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt enter into
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly world of thee elect Riya. Thy life has
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. Thou art come near to death Yama.
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  Speaker 1: There is no resting place for THEE on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and thou hast no provision for thy journey. Make thyself
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  Speaker 1: an island. Work hard, be wise. When thy impurities are
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  Speaker 1: blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: not enter again into birth and decay. Let a wise
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  Speaker 1: man blow off the impurities of his self, as a
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  Speaker 1: smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one,
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  Speaker 1: little by little, and from time to time, as the
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  Speaker 1: impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from
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  Speaker 1: it destroys it. Thus do a transgressor's own works lead
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  Speaker 1: him to the evil path. The taint of prayers is
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  Speaker 1: non repetition. The taint of houses non repair. The taint
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  Speaker 1: of the body is sloth, the taint of a watchman, thoughtlessness,
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  Speaker 1: bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint
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  Speaker 1: of a benefactor. Tainted are all evil ways in this
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  Speaker 1: world and in the next. But there is a taint
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  Speaker 1: worse than all taints. Ignorance is the greatest taint. Oh mendicants,
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  Speaker 1: throw off that taint and become taintless. Life is easy
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  Speaker 1: to live for a man who is without shame, a
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  Speaker 1: crow hero, a mischief maker, an insulting, bold and wretched fellow.
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  Speaker 1: But life is hard to live for a modest man
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  Speaker 1: who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless,
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  Speaker 1: and intelligent. He who destroys life, who speaks truth, who
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  Speaker 1: in this world takes what is not given him, who
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  Speaker 1: goes to another man's wife, And the man who gives
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  Speaker 1: himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, He, even in this world,
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  Speaker 1: digs up his own root. O man, know this that
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  Speaker 1: the unrestrained are in a bad state. Take care that
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  Speaker 1: greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief. For
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  Speaker 1: a long time, the world gives according to their faith
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  Speaker 1: or according to their pleasure. If a man frets about
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  Speaker 1: the food and the drink given to others, he will
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  Speaker 1: find no rest, either by day or by night. He
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  Speaker 1: in whom that feeling is destroyed and taken out with
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  Speaker 1: the very root, finds rapt by day and by night.
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  Speaker 1: There is no fire like passion. There is no shark
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  Speaker 1: like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is
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  Speaker 1: no torrent like greed. The fault of others is easily perceived,
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  Speaker 1: but that of one's self is difficult to perceive. A
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  Speaker 1: man winnows his neighbor's faults like chaff, but his own
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  Speaker 1: fault he hides as a cheat hides the bad dye
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  Speaker 1: from the gambler. If a man looks after the faults
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  Speaker 1: of others and is always inclined to be offended, his
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  Speaker 1: own passions will grow, and he is far from the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of passions. There is no path through the air.
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  Speaker 1: A man is not a somana by outward acts. The
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  Speaker 1: world delights in vanity. The toetogetas the Buddhas are free
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  Speaker 1: from vanity. There is no path through the air. A
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  Speaker 1: man is not a surmona by outward acts. No creatures
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  Speaker 1: are eternal, but the awakened Buddha are never shaken. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter eighteen.