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18 - Impurity - The Dhammapada · Wisdom of the Ages Library

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