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10 - Punishment - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter ten, punishment. All men tremble at punishment. All men fear death.
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  Remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill nor call
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  slaughter. All men tremble at punishment. All men love life. Remember that
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  thou art like unto them, and do not kill nor call slaughter. He
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  who seeking his own happiness punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness,
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  will not find happiness after death. He who seeking his own happiness does not
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  punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death.
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  Speak harshly to anybody. Those who are spoken to will answer THEE in
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  the same way. Angry speech is painful. Blows for blows will touch THEE.
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  If, like a shattered metal plate gong, thou utter not, then
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  thou hast reached nirvana. Contention is not known to THEE. As a cowherd
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  with his staff drives his cows into the stable, so do age and death
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  drive the life of men. A fool does not know when he commits his
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  evil deeds, but the wicked man burns by his own deeds, as if
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  burnt by fire. He who inflicts pain on innocent and harmless persons will soon
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  come to one of these ten states, he will have cruel suffering, loss
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  injury of the body, heavy affliction or loss of mind, or a misfortune
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  coming from the king, or a fearful accusation or loss of relations, or
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  destruction of treasures, or lightning fire will burn his houses, and when his
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  body is destroyed, the fool will go to hell. Not nakedness, not
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  plaited hair, not dirt, not fasting or lying on the earth, not
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  rubbing with dust, not sitting motionless, can purify a mortal who has not
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  overcome desires. He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquility,
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  is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault
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  with all other beings. He, indeed is a bramina, an ascetic shramana,
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  a friar ictuu. Is there in this world any man so restrained by
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  humility that he does not mind reproof as a well trained horse the whip.
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  Like a well trained horse, when touched by the whip, be ye active
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  and lively, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation,
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  by discernment of the law, you will overcome this great pain of reproof.
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  Perfect in knowledge and in behavior, and never forgetful. Well makers lead
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  the water wherever they like. Fletchers bend the arrow, Carpenters bend a log
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  of wood. Good people fashion themselves. End of Chapter ten