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06 - The Wise Man (Pandita) - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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