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02 - On Earnestness - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two on earnestness. Earnestness is the path of immortality nirvana.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest
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  Speaker 1: do not die. Those who are thoughtless are as if
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  Speaker 1: dead already. Those who are advanced in earnestness, having understood this, clearly,
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  Speaker 1: delight in earnestness and rejoice in the knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: arrias the elect. These wise people, meditative study, always possessed
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  Speaker 1: of strong powers, attain to nirvana, the highest happiness. If
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  Speaker 1: an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful,
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  Speaker 1: if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration,
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  Speaker 1: if he restrains himself and lives according to law, then
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  Speaker 1: his glory will increase by rousing himself by earnestness. By
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  Speaker 1: restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself
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  Speaker 1: an island which no flood can overwhelm. Fools follow after vanity,
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  Speaker 1: men of evil wisdom. The wise man keeps earnestness as
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  Speaker 1: his best jewel, follow not after vanity, nor after the
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment of love and lust. He who is earnest and
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  Speaker 1: meditative obtains ample joy. When the learned man drives away
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  Speaker 1: vanity by earnestness. He the wise, climbing the terraced heights
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom, looks down upon the fools, serene. He looks
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  Speaker 1: upon the toiling crowd as one that stands on a mountain,
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  Speaker 1: looks down upon them that stand upon the plain, earnest
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  Speaker 1: among the thoughtless, awake, among the sleepers. The wise man
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  Speaker 1: advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack By earnestness
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  Speaker 1: did magarvern Indra rise to the lordship of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: People praise earnestness, thoughtlessness is always blamed. A big shoe
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  Speaker 1: mendicant who delights in earnestness, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness,
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  Speaker 1: moves about like fire, burning all his fetters, small or large.
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  Speaker 1: A big shoe mendicant who delights in reflection, who looks
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  Speaker 1: with fear on thoughtlessness, cannot fall away from his perfect state.
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  Speaker 1: He is close upon Nirvana. End of chapter two,