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19 - Impurity - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter nineteen. The just. A man is not just if he carries a
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  matter by violence. No, he who distinguishes both right and wrong, who
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  is learned and leads others not by violence, but by law and equity,
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  and who is guarded by the law and intelligent, he is called just.
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  A man is not learned because he talks much. He who is patient,
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  free from hatred and fear, he is called learned. A man is not
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  a supporter of the law because he talks much. Even if a man has
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  learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is a supporter of the
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  law. A man who never neglects the law. A man is not an
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  elder because his head is gray. His age may be ripe, but he
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  is called old in vain. He in whom there is truth, virtue,
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  love, restraint, moderation, He who is free from impurity and is wise,
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  he is called an elder. An envious, greedy, dishonest man does
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  not become respectable by means of much talking only, or by the beauty of
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  his complexion. He in whom all this is destroyed and taken out with a
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  very root, He, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
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  Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man who speaks falsehood become a samana.
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  Can a man be a samana who is still held captive by desire and greediness?
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  He who always quiets the evil, whether small or large, he is
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  called a samana. A quiet man because he has quieted all evil. A
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  man is not a mendicant bicshu simply because he asks others for alms. He
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  who adopts the whole law is a bichu. Not he who only begs.
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  He who is above good and evil, who is chaste, who with knowledge
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  passes through the world. He indeed is called a bic shu. A man
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  is not a moi because he observes silence mona, that is mauna if he
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  is foolish and ignorant. But the wise, who taking the balance, chooses
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  the good and avoids evil, he is a moony and is a mooney.
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  Thereby, he who in this world weighs both sides is called a mooni.
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  A man is not an elect riya because he injures living creatures, because he
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  has pity on all living creatures. Therefore is a man called arriya. Not
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  only by discipline and vows not only by much learning, not by entering into
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  a trance, not by sleeping alone, do I, in the happiness of
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  release, which no worldling can know? Pict be not confident as long as
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  thou hast not attained the extinction of desires. End of chapter nineteen.