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02 - On Earnestness - The Dhammapada · Wisdom of the Ages Library

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  Chapter two on earnestness. Earnestness is the path of immortality nirvana. Thoughtlessness the
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  path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die. Those who
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  are thoughtless are as if dead already. Those who are advanced in earnestness,
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  having understood this, clearly, delight in earnestness and rejoice in the knowledge of
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  the arrias the elect. These wise people, meditative study, always possessed of
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  strong powers, attain to nirvana, the highest happiness. If an earnest person
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  has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure,
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  if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself and lives according to
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  law, then his glory will increase by rousing himself by earnestness. By restraint
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  and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood
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  can overwhelm. Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. The wise
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  man keeps earnestness as his best jewel, follow not after vanity, nor after
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  the enjoyment of love and lust. He who is earnest and meditative obtains ample
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  joy. When the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness. He the wise,
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  climbing the terraced heights of wisdom, looks down upon the fools, serene.
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  He looks upon the toiling crowd as one that stands on a mountain,
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  looks down upon them that stand upon the plain, earnest among the thoughtless,
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  awake, among the sleepers. The wise man advances like a racer, leaving
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  behind the hack By earnestness did magarvern Indra rise to the lordship of the gods.
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  People praise earnestness, thoughtlessness is always blamed. A big shoe mendicant who
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  delights in earnestness, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness, moves about like fire,
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  burning all his fetters, small or large. A big shoe mendicant who
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  delights in reflection, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness, cannot fall away from
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  his perfect state. He is close upon Nirvana. End of chapter two,