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16 - Pleasure - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen pleasure. He who gives himself to vanity and
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  Speaker 1: does not give himself to meditation forgetting the real aim
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  Speaker 1: of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy
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  Speaker 1: him who has exerted himself in meditation. Let no man
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  Speaker 1: ever look for what is pleasant or what is unpleasant.
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  Speaker 1: Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it
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  Speaker 1: is pain to see what is unpleasant. Let therefore no
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  Speaker 1: man love anything. Loss of the beloved is evil. Those
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  Speaker 1: who love nothing and hate nothing have no fetters. From
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  Speaker 1: pleasure comes grief. From pleasure comes fear. He who is
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  Speaker 1: free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear. From affection
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  Speaker 1: comes grief. From affection comes fear. He who is free
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  Speaker 1: from affection knows neither grief nor fear. From lust comes grief.
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  Speaker 1: From lust comes fear. He who is free from lust
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  Speaker 1: knows neither grief nor fear. From love comes grief. From
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  Speaker 1: love comes fear. He who is free from love knows
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  Speaker 1: neither grief nor fear. From greed comes grief. From greed
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  Speaker 1: comes fear. He who is free from greed knows neither
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  Speaker 1: grief nor fear. He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who
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  Speaker 1: is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his
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  Speaker 1: own business. Him the world will hold dear. He in
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  Speaker 1: whom a desire for the ineffable Nirvana has sprung up,
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  Speaker 1: who is satisfied in his mind, and whose thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: not bewildered by love. He is calderdamstrotas carried upwards by
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  Speaker 1: the stream Kinsman. Friends and lovers salute a man who
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  Speaker 1: has been long away and returns safe from afar in
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  Speaker 1: like manner. His good works receive him, who has done
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  Speaker 1: good and has gone from this world to the other,
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  Speaker 1: as Kinsman receive a friend on his return. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixteen.