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05 - The Fool - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five. The fool. Long is the knight to him
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  Speaker 1: who is awake, Long is a mile to him who
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  Speaker 1: is tired. Long is life to the foolish who do
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  Speaker 1: not know the true law. If a traveler does not
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  Speaker 1: meet with one who is his better or his equal,
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  Speaker 1: let him firmly keep to his solitary journey. There is
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  Speaker 1: no companionship with a fool. These sons belong to me,
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  Speaker 1: and this wealth belongs to me. With such thoughts, a
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  Speaker 1: fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself,
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  Speaker 1: how much less sons and wealth. The fool who knows
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  Speaker 1: his foolishness is wise at least so far. But a
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  Speaker 1: fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: if a fool be associated with a wise man, even
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  Speaker 1: all his life, he will perceive the truth as little
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  Speaker 1: as a spoon perceives the taste of soup. If an
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  Speaker 1: intelligent man be associated for one minute only with a
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  Speaker 1: wise man, he will soon perceive the truth as the
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  Speaker 1: tongue perceives the taste of soup. Fools of little understanding
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  Speaker 1: have themselves for their greatest enemies, for they do evil
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  Speaker 1: deeds which must bear bitter fruits. That deed is not
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  Speaker 1: well done, of which a man must repent, and the
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  Speaker 1: reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face. No,
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  Speaker 1: that deed is well done, of which a man does
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  Speaker 1: not repent, and the reward of which he receives gladly
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  Speaker 1: and cheerfully. As long as the evil deed done does
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  Speaker 1: not bear fruit, the fool thinks it is like honey.
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  Speaker 1: But when it ripens, then the fool suffers grief. Let
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  Speaker 1: a fool, month after month, eat his food like an
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  Speaker 1: ascetic with a tip of a blade of cusher grass.
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  Speaker 1: Yet is he not worth the sixteenth particle of those
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  Speaker 1: who have well weighed the law. An evil deed, like
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  Speaker 1: newly drawn milk, does not turn suddenly smoldering, like fire
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  Speaker 1: covered by ashes. It follows the fool. And when the
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  Speaker 1: evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to
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  Speaker 1: the fool, then it destroys his bright lot. Nay, it
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  Speaker 1: cleaves his head. Let the fool wish for a false reputation,
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  Speaker 1: for precedence among the big shoes, for lordship in the convents,
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  Speaker 1: for worship among other people. May both the layman and
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  Speaker 1: he who has left the world. Think that this is
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  Speaker 1: done by me. May they be subject to me in
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  Speaker 1: everything which is to be done or is not to
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  Speaker 1: be done. Thus is the mind of the fool, and
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  Speaker 1: his desire and pride increase. One is the road that
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  Speaker 1: leads to wealth. Another the road that leads to nirvana.
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  Speaker 1: If the Biktu, the disciple of Buddha, has learnt this,
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  Speaker 1: he will not yearn for honor. He will strive after
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  Speaker 1: separation from the world. End of Chapter five