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09 - Evil - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine Evil. If a man would hasten towards the good,
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  Speaker 1: he should keep his thought away from evil. If a
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  Speaker 1: man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.
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  Speaker 1: If a man commits a sin, let him not do
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  Speaker 1: it again, Let him not delight in sin. Pain is
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  Speaker 1: the outcome of evil. If a man does what is good,
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  Speaker 1: let him do it again, let him delight in it.
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  Speaker 1: Happiness is the outcome of good. Even an evil doer
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  Speaker 1: sees happiness as long as his evil deed has not ripened.
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  Speaker 1: But when his evil deed has ripened, then does the
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  Speaker 1: evil doer see evil. Even a good man sees evil
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  Speaker 1: days as long as his good deed has not ripened.
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  Speaker 1: But when his good deed has ripened, then does the
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  Speaker 1: good man see happy days. Let no man think lightly
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  Speaker 1: of evil, saying in his heart, it will not come
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  Speaker 1: nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water drops.
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  Speaker 1: A water pot is filled, the fool becomes full of evil,
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  Speaker 1: even if he gather it little by little. Let no
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  Speaker 1: man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, it
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  Speaker 1: will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling
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  Speaker 1: of water drops. A water pot is filled, The wise
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  Speaker 1: man becomes full of good, even if he gather it
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  Speaker 1: little by little. Let a man avoid evil deeds. As
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  Speaker 1: a merchant, if he has few companions and carries much wealth,
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  Speaker 1: avoids a dangerous road. As a man who loves life
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  Speaker 1: avoids poison. He who has no wound on his hand
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  Speaker 1: may touch poison with his hand. Poison does not affect
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  Speaker 1: one who has no wound. Nor is there evil for
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  Speaker 1: one who does not commit evil. If a man offend
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  Speaker 1: a harmless, pure and innocent person, the evil falls back
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  Speaker 1: upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are born again. Evil doers go to hell,
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  Speaker 1: Righteous people go to heaven. Those who are free from
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  Speaker 1: all worldly desires attained nirvana. Not in the sky, not
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of the sea, Not if we enter
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  Speaker 1: into the clefts of the mountains. Is there known a
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  Speaker 1: spot in the whole world where a man might be
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  Speaker 1: freed from an evil deed. Not in the sky, not
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of the sea, Not if we enter
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  Speaker 1: into the clefts of the mountains. Is there known a
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  Speaker 1: spot in the whole world where death could not overcome
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  Speaker 1: the mortal End of Chapter nine