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21 - Miscellaneous - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter twenty one Miscellaneous. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great
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  pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure and look to the great.
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  He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for
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  himself. He entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from
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  hatred. What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be
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  done is done. The desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
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  But they whose whole watchfulness is always directed to their body, who do not
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  follow what ought not to be done, and who steadfastly do what ought to
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  be done, the desires of such watchful and wise people will come to an
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  end. A true Bromina goes scathless though he have killed father and mother,
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  and two valiant kings, though he has destroyed a kingdom with all its subjects.
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  A true Bramina goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother,
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  and two holy kings and an eminent man. Besides, the disciples of Gautema,
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  Buddha are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always
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  set on Buddha. The disciples of Gautimer are always well awake, and their
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  thoughts day and night are always set on the law. The disciples of Gautimer
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  are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on
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  the church. The disciples of Gautama are always well awake, and their thoughts
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  day and night are always set on their body. The disciples of Gautemer are
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  always well awake, and their mind day and night always delights in compassion.
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  The disciples of Gautama are always well awake, and their mind day and night
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  always delights in meditation. It is hard to leave the world to become a
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  friar. It is hard to enjoy the world. Hard is the monastery painful?
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  Are the houses painful? It is to dwell with equals, to share
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  everything in common. And the itinerary mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore,
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  let no man be an itinerant mendicant, and he will not be beset with
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  pain. Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses
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  there he is respected. Good people shine from afar like the snowy mountains.
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  Bad people are not seen like arrows shot by night. He alone, who
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  without ceasing, practices the duty of sitting alone and sleeping alone, he subduing
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  himself, will rejoice in the destruction of all desires alone, as if living
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  in a forest. End of Chapter twenty one