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16 - Pleasure - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter sixteen pleasure. He who gives himself to vanity and does not give himself
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  to meditation forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in
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  time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation. Let no man ever look
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  for what is pleasant or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant
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  is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant. Let therefore
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  no man love anything. Loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love
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  nothing and hate nothing have no fetters. From pleasure comes grief. From pleasure
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  comes fear. He who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
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  From affection comes grief. From affection comes fear. He who is free from
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  affection knows neither grief nor fear. From lust comes grief. From lust comes
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  fear. He who is free from lust knows neither grief nor fear. From
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  love comes grief. From love comes fear. He who is free from love
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  knows neither grief nor fear. From greed comes grief. From greed comes fear.
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  He who is free from greed knows neither grief nor fear. He who
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  possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does
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  what is his own business. Him the world will hold dear. He in
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  whom a desire for the ineffable Nirvana has sprung up, who is satisfied in
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  his mind, and whose thoughts are not bewildered by love. He is calderdamstrotas
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  carried upwards by the stream Kinsman. Friends and lovers salute a man who has
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  been long away and returns safe from afar in like manner. His good works
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  receive him, who has done good and has gone from this world to the
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  other, as Kinsman receive a friend on his return. End of chapter sixteen.