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06 - The Wise Man (Pandita) - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter six, The wise Man Pandita. If you see an
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  Speaker 1: intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to
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  Speaker 1: be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and
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  Speaker 1: administers reproofs, follow that wise man. It will be better,
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  Speaker 1: not worse, for those who follow him. Let him admonish,
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  Speaker 1: let him teach, Let him forbid what is improper. He
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  Speaker 1: will be beloved of the good. By the bad, he
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  Speaker 1: will be hated. Do not have evil doers for friends.
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  Speaker 1: Do not have low people. For friends, have virtuous people.
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  Speaker 1: For friends have for friends the best of men. He
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  Speaker 1: who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind.
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  Speaker 1: The sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by
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  Speaker 1: the elect arias well. Makers lead the water wherever they like.
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  Speaker 1: Fletchers bend the arrow, Carpenters bend a log of wood.
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  Speaker 1: Wise people fashion themselves as a solid rock is not
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  Speaker 1: shaken by the wind. Wise people falter not amidst blame
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  Speaker 1: and praise. Wise people, after they have listened to the laws,
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  Speaker 1: become serene like a deep, smooth and still lake. Good
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  Speaker 1: people walk on whatever befall the good. Do not prattle
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  Speaker 1: longing for pleasure, whether touched by happiness or sorrow. Wise
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  Speaker 1: people never appear elated or depressed. If, whether for his
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  Speaker 1: own sake or for the sake of others, a man
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  Speaker 1: wishes neither for a son, nor for wealth, nor for lordship.
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  Speaker 1: And if he does not wish for his own success
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  Speaker 1: by unfair means, then he is good, wise, and virtuous.
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  Speaker 1: Few are there among men who arrive at the other
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  Speaker 1: shore become our hats. The other people here run up
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  Speaker 1: and down the shore. But those who, when the law
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  Speaker 1: has been well preached to them, follow the law, will
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  Speaker 1: pass across the dominion of death, however difficult to overcome.
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  Speaker 1: A wise man should leave the dark state of ordinary
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  Speaker 1: life and follow the bright state of the victu After
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  Speaker 1: going from his home to a homeless state, he should,
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  Speaker 1: in his retirement, look for enjoyment where there seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be no enjoyment, leaving all pleasures behind and calling nothing
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  Speaker 1: his own. The wise man should purge himself from all
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  Speaker 1: the troubles of the mind. Those whose mind is well
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  Speaker 1: grounded in the seven elements of knowledge, who without clinging
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  Speaker 1: to anything, rejoice in freedom from attachment, whose appetites have
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  Speaker 1: been conquered, and who are full of light, are free
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  Speaker 1: even in this world. End of chapter six,