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501 23, 324 | uncontrollable. Held in captivity, the tusker does not touch
502 23, 330 | alone and do no evil; be carefree like and elephant in the
503 26, 385 | both, he who is free of cares and is unfettered -- him
504 5, 78 | disciple of the Buddha, be carried away by worldly acclaim,
505 Int | chapter's heading . In some cases (Chapters 4 and 23) this
506 26, 417 | 417. He who, casting off human bonds and transcending
507 2, 31 | even so when the wise man casts away heedlessness by heedfulness
508 21, 293 | 293. The cankers cease for those mindful and clearly
509 22, 312 | any life of questionable celibacy -- none of these bear much
510 18, 253 | another's faults, who is ever censorious -- his cankers grow. He
511 25, 379 | 379. By oneself one must censure oneself and scrutinize oneself .
512 Int, 3 | foundation. The four truths all center around the fact of suffering (
513 18, 252 | is difficult to see. Like chaff one winnows another's faults,
514 Int, 3 | implacable law of arising, change, and passing away. ~However,
515 Int, 1 | s ways can be radically changed, and one who abandons the
516 Int, 3 | contemplate their salient characteristics. This wisdom, gradually
517 22, 307 | 307. There are many evil characters and uncontrolled men wearing
518 Int | spontaneous and intuitively charged medium of verse used in
519 10, 138-40 | the government, or grave charges, loss of relatives, or loss
520 11, 151 | 151. Even gorgeous royal chariots wear out, and indeed this
521 Int, 3 | unwholesome deeds and words, are checked and kept under control.
522 Int, 3 | immediate occasion of conscious choice and action. ~The recognition
523 Int, 3 | jubilation, for by means of his choices he determines his own individual
524 Int, 3 | modes of knowing fail to circumscribe his nature: he is trackless,
525 Int | all dogmas and inscrutable claims to authority, the Dhamma
526 14, 193 | a wise man is born, that clan thrives happily. ~
527 Int | as a kind of rubric for classifying the diverse poetic utterances
528 3, 43 | body is as fragile as a clay pot, and fortifying this
529 18, 245 | detached and unassuming, clean in life, and discerning. ~
530 5, 75 | gains knowledge, for it cleaves his head and destroys his
531 Int, 3 | wisdom, gradually ripened, climaxes in the understanding that
532 22, 315 | Just as a border city is closely guarded both within and
533 Int | diversity of needs that may co-exist even in a single individual.
534 Int, 3 | training in morality, the coarsest forms of the mental defilements,
535 Int | into a single perfectly coherent system of thought and practice
536 17, 230 | such a one, as worthy as a coin of refined gold? Even the
537 14, 186-87 | even with the rain of gold coins. For sensual pleasures give
538 Pre | Mahathera of Vajirarama, Colombo. Sri Lanka, and Professor
539 Int, 3 | appamada). Heedfulness combines critical self awareness
540 Int, 3 | program of personal training commended by the Dhammapada. In its
541 Int | in many verses the Buddha commends certain practices on the
542 1, 10(1) | path to liberation. The commentaries explain Mara as the lord
543 4, 53 | none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see
544 10, 136 | 136. When the fool commits evil deeds, he does not
545 Int, 1 | life, from stealing, from committing adultery, from speaking
546 5, 64 | Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal,
547 6, 81 | not associate with evil companions; do not seek the fellowship
548 Pre | verses constitutes a perfect compendium of the Buddha's teaching,
549 Pre | commentary to the work, compiled by the great scholiast Bhadantacariya
550 Int | Dhammapada" which the ancient compilers of the Buddhist scriptures
551 Int, 3 | influences of laziness and complacency. Heedfulness, the Buddha
552 Int, 3 | brahmacariya). For conduct to be completely purified, for sustained
553 Int | Buddha, viewed in their completeness, all link together into
554 Int, 3 | his suffering. his immense complexity, his striving and movement
555 Pre | world religious classic. Composed in the ancient Pali language,
556 21, 293 | those mindful and clearly comprehending ones who always earnestly
557 Int | of the Buddha's own clear comprehension of reality, and it leads
558 Int | expounder of the verses that comprise the Dhammapada is the Indian
559 Pre | of the Buddha's teaching, comprising between its covers all the
560 14, 195-96 | ones, his merit none can compute by any measure. ~
561 Int, 3 | the training in wisdom the concentrated beam of attention is focused
562 Int, 3 | humanity. All our familiar concepts and modes of knowing fail
563 Int, 1 | to this first level are concerned with the resolution of conflict
564 Int, 1 | immediately visible sphere of concrete human relations. The aim
565 Int | conspicuous in the highly condensed. spontaneous and intuitively
566 Int, 2 | the future when they meet conditions conducive to their ripening. ~
567 Int, 2 | when they meet conditions conducive to their ripening. ~The
568 Int, 3 | that the Dhammapada will confer upon his life a new meaning
569 Int | has elicited has not been confined to avowed followers of Buddhism.
570 Int, 3 | speaks words of assurance confirming that it can be done, that
571 Int, 3 | Buddha by his very being confirms the Buddhist faith in human
572 Int, 2 | in their broader cosmic connections, as tied to an invisible
573 26, 383(26) | word brahmana its original connotation by identifying the true "
574 8, 103 | 103. Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand
575 Int, 1 | at harmony with his own conscience and at peace with his fellow
576 Int, 3 | ineluctable immediate occasion of conscious choice and action. ~The
577 15, 202(17) | mental formations, and consciousness. ~
578 Pre | translation has undergone considerable revision. The newly added
579 26, 394(28) | and garments of hides were considered marks of holiness. ~
580 22, 315 | opportunity grieve indeed when consigned to hell. ~
581 22, 310 | punishment. Hence, let no man consort with another's wife. ~
582 22, 309 | befall the reckless man who consorts with another's wife: acquisition
583 Int | discourses, becomes even more conspicuous in the highly condensed.
584 Pre | slim anthology of verses constitutes a perfect compendium of
585 Pre | Some years earlier, while consulting a number of English-language
586 Int, 3 | in human perfectibility consummates the Dhammapada's picture
587 Pre | acknowledge my debt. A few verses contain riddles, references or analogies
588 Int | discourses of the Buddha contained in the prose sections of
589 25, 362 | keeps to himself and is contented -- him do people call a
590 Pre | very ancient times. The contents of the verses, however.
591 Int, 2 | demands a more satisfactory context for ethics than mere appeals
592 Int, 1 | own faults, and to make a continual effort to remove his impurities
593 Int, 2 | yielding rebirth, kamma continues to operate, governing the
594 Int, 2 | discoverable beginning in time and continuing on as long as the desire
595 Int, 2 | its significance in its contribution to human felicity here and
596 Int | can be expected to count a copy of the book among his few
597 25, 376 | pure in life, let him be cordial and refined in conduct.
598 Int, 2 | Dhammapada is the practical corollary to this recognition of the
599 24, 352 | arrangement of the sacred texts in correct sequence -- he, indeed,
600 Int, 2 | shown now in their broader cosmic connections, as tied to
601 Pre | Dhammapada is a sympathetic counselor; for the intellectually
602 Int | meditation, can be expected to count a copy of the book among
603 Int | of early Buddhism. In the countries following Theravada Buddhism,
604 21, 294 | nihilism), and destroyed a country (sense organs and sense
605 1, 22 | like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others -- he
606 20, 281 | Let him purify these three courses of action, and win the path
607 5, 74 | follows the fool like fire covered by ashes. ~
608 1, 22 | cowherd who only counts the cows of others -- he does not
609 18, 252 | hides one's own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham
610 11, 155 | wealth, languish like old cranes in the pond without fish. ~
611 6, 87 | any wrong), who does not crave for sons, wealth, or kingdom,
612 24, 354 | excels all delights. The Craving-Freed vanquishes all suffering. ~
613 24, 339(21) | currents of craving: the three cravings -- for sensual pleasure,
614 Int, 3 | with an account of God's creation of the world, the Dhammapada
615 15, 202 | no fire like lust and no crime like hatred. There is no
616 26, 398 | he who has removed the crossbar (of ignorance) and is enlightened --
617 18, 244 | one who is impudent as a crow, is backbiting and forward,
618 23, 321 | tamed elephant is led into a crowd, and the king mounts a tamed
619 Int, 3 | heedfulness becomes the crucial factor for ensuring that
620 24, 337 | birana grass. Let not Mara crush you again and again, as
621 24, 337 | again and again, as a flood crushes a reed. ~
622 Pre | heart of the Buddha have crystallized into these luminous verses
623 Int, 3 | obtaining what one wants. It culminates in the declaration that
624 25, 370(24) | last five. The five to be cultivated are the five spiritual faculties:
625 Int, 2 | abstaining from evil and for cultivating the good. The difference
626 Int, 3 | of basic morality and the cultivation of wholesome attitudes as
627 22, 311 | kusa grass wrongly handled cuts the hand, even so, a recluse'
628 Int, 3 | application of its principles to daily life. Thence it might be
629 20, 286 | He does not realize the danger (that death might intervene). ~
630 6, 87-88 | 87-88. Abandoning the dark way, let the wise man cultivate
631 11, 146 | jubilation? Shrouded in darkness, will you not see the light? ~
632 2, 24 | The heedless are as if dead already. 3 ~
633 6, 89(10) | verse describes the Arahat, dealt with more fully in the following
634 Pre | To them I acknowledge my debt. A few verses contain riddles,
635 19, 262 | is jealous, selfish and deceitful. ~
636 Int, 3 | full responsibility for his decisions. Man's moral freedom is
637 Int, 3 | thus cannot provide the decisive program of personal training
638 Int, 3 | wants. It culminates in the declaration that all constituent phenomena
639 13, 171 | this world, which is like a decorated royal chariot. Here fools
640 Int, 3 | field for those ready to dedicate their lives to the practice
641 26, 383(26) | led a contemplative life dedicated to gaining Arahatship could
642 Int, 3 | a succession of lives. A deeper, more searching examination,
643 15, 201 | Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the
644 12, 165 | done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left
645 Int, 3 | good and evil, purity and defilement, progress and decline. His
646 Int, 3 | to detect and expel the defiling impulses whenever they seek
647 26, 383(26) | privileged priesthood which defined itself by means of birth
648 Int, 3 | than persistence as the defining mark of actuality. The universe
649 Int, 3 | Pali Canon the stages of definite attainment along the way
650 Int, 3 | to the lowest depths of degradation, if he chooses rightly he
651 Int, 1 | past, there is no need for dejection or despair; for a man's
652 Int, 3 | and death, man walks the delicate balance between good and
653 Int, 3 | alike. Taken together, these delineate for us the basic world view
654 Int | The intensified power of delivery can result in apparent inconsistencies
655 26, 414 | this miry, perilous and delusive round of existence, has
656 Int, 3 | extremely difficult and demanding, the voice of the Buddha
657 Int, 2 | thought, the human situation demands a more satisfactory context
658 Int, 3 | Arahat serves as a living demonstration of the truth of the Dhamma.
659 Pre | parents and relatives, departed and living. May they find
660 22, 306 | of base actions both, on departing they share the same destiny
661 18, 235 | stand on the eve of your departure, yet you have made no provision
662 Int, 1 | recluses and brahmans who depend on the laity for their maintenance (
663 12, 165 | pure. Purity and impurity depended on oneself; no one can purify
664 Int, 3 | the Supreme Teacher who depends on nothing but his own self-evolved
665 1, 13 | But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues
666 6, 86 | wise show no elation or depression when touched by happiness
667 Int, 3 | he can sink to the lowest depths of degradation, if he chooses
668 10, 138-40 | injury, serious illness, or derangement of mind, trouble from the
669 6, 89(10) | v. 89) This verse describes the Arahat, dealt with more
670 Int | the Buddha's teaching is designed to meet three primary aims:
671 26, 410 | world or the next, who is desire-free and emancipated -- him do
672 9, 123 | perilous route, or just as one desiring to live avoids poison, even
673 2, 33 | praised, and heedlessness ever despised. 5 ~
674 14, 185 | 185. Not despising, not harming, restraint
675 Int, 2 | of morality is justified, despite its difficulties and apparent
676 Int, 3 | the gods. The paths to all destinations branch out from the present,
677 Int, 1 | which teach abstinence from destroying life, from stealing, from
678 Int, 3 | 202-203). The first truth details the various forms of suffering --
679 Int, 2 | leads downwards -- to inner deterioration, to suffering and to rebirth
680 Int, 2 | actions become the chief determinant of our destiny both in this
681 Int, 2 | which ensures that morally determinate action does not disappear
682 6, 80 | is dear to the good and detestable to the evil. ~
683 5, 78 | by worldly acclaim, but develop detachment instead. ~ ~
684 Int, 3 | immediate aim for those of developed faculties and also as the
685 Int, 1 | and compassion (223). By developing and mastering these qualities
686 Int, 3 | reveal more clearly the developmental structure of the training:
687 Int | This fourfold schematism develops out of an ancient interpretive
688 Int, 3 | path of training without deviating due to the seductive allurements
689 1, 12 | Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness,
690 25, 382 | That monk who while young devotes himself to the Teaching
691 26, 392 | fire, even so should one devoutly revere the person from whom
692 23, 324 | during rut, the tusker named Dhanapalaka is uncontrollable. Held
693 12, 161 | himself, grinds him as a diamond grinds a hard gem. ~
694 Int, 3 | duality of human life, the dichotomies which taunt and challenge
695 Int, 2 | teaching itself does not differ from that presented at the
696 Int, 2 | cultivating the good. The difference lies in the perspective
697 Int, 2 | is justified, despite its difficulties and apparent failures, by
698 24, 337 | luck to all assembled here! Dig up the root of craving,
699 4, 57 | virtuous man pervades all directions with the fragrance of his
700 Int, 1 | verses provide more specific directives. One should avoid irritability
701 Int, 2 | determinate action does not disappear into nothingness but eventually
702 10, 138-40 | 138-140 Sharp pain, or disaster, bodily injury, serious
703 26, 383 | stream (of craving), and discard sense desires. Knowing the
704 26, 388 | 388. Because he has discarded evil, he is called a holy
705 15, 201 | Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat. ~
706 22, 319 | 319. Those who discern the wrong as wrong and the
707 Int, 3 | Dhammapada provides no new disclosure of doctrine or practice,
708 18, 250 | 250. But he in who this (discontent) is fully destroyed, uprooted
709 18, 249 | or regard. If one becomes discontented with the food and drink
710 Int | birth, but in others he discourages disciples from aspiring
711 Int, 3 | gradually it will lead him to discover a freedom and happiness
712 Int, 2 | series of lives having no discoverable beginning in time and continuing
713 Int | resolving these apparent discrepancies is the recognition that
714 Int | of themes for sermons and discussions, a guidebook for resolving
715 26, 418 | having cast off likes and dislikes, has become tranquil, is
716 Int, 1 | one's mind (183). But to dispel any doubts the disciple
717 10, 138-40 | destroyed by ravaging fire; upon dissolution of the body that ignorant
718 Int, 3 | wise who understand this distinction abide in heedfulness and
719 Int, 3 | experience for the Buddha's distinctive exposition of the Dhamma,
720 Int, 2 | and emotions. The Buddha distinguishes kamma into two primary ethical
721 Pre | Buddha inevitably suffer some distortion. This, in fact, has already
722 Int, 3 | imperative, one which minimizes distractions and stimulants to craving
723 Int, 3 | purged of the currents of distractive thoughts. By the training
724 22, 309 | acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, ill-repute, and (
725 Int | he went through a deeply disturbing encounter with the sufferings
726 4, 61 | rubbish in the road-side ditch blooms a lotus, fragrant
727 8, 104-05(12)| v. 104) Brahma: a high divinity in ancient Indian religion. ~
728 Int, 3 | at this third level, the doctrinal emphasis shifts from the
729 Int | liberation. Free from all dogmas and inscrutable claims to
730 23, 325 | around in bed like a fat domestic pig, that sluggard undergoes
731 1, 12 | and truthfulness, should don the monk's yellow robe,
732 24, 338 | until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering
733 20, 287 | man with a clinging mind, doting on his children and cattle. ~
734 11, 149 | 149. These dove-colored bones are like gourds that
735 24, 345-6 | fetter, which pulls one downward and, though seemingly loose,
736 Int, 2 | selfishness and hate, leads downwards -- to inner deterioration,
737 Pre | scholars as Max Muller and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. However,
738 18, 248 | not greed and wickedness drag you to protracted misery. ~
739 22, 311 | recluse's life wrongly lived drags one to states of woe. ~
740 23, 327 | Guard well your thoughts! Draw yourself out of this bog
741 23, 327 | evil, even as an elephant draws himself out of the mud. ~
742 Int, 3 | freedom is a reason for both dread and jubilation, for by means
743 18, 249 | discontented with the food and drink given by others, one does
744 15, 205 | and stainless he becomes, drinking deep the taste of the bliss
745 10, 135 | so do old age and death drive the life force of beings (
746 14, 188 | 188. Driven only by fear, do men go
747 Int, 1 | anger but control it as a driver controls a chariot (222).
748 18, 239 | as a smith removes his dross from silver. ~
749 Int, 3 | around the fact of suffering (dukkha), understood not as mere
750 Int, 1 | diligently fulfilling his duties, such as service to parents,
751 15, 208 | steadfast, wise, learned, dutiful and devout. One should follow
752 16, 218 | the Ineffable (Nibbana), dwells with mind inspired (by supramundane
753 Int, 2 | throughout the work (see, e.g., 15-18, 117-122, 127, 132-
754 8, 109 | 109. To one ever eager to revere and serve the
755 25, 360 | good is restraint over the ear; good is restraint over
756 Pre | late 1950's. Some years earlier, while consulting a number
757 Int | has become known its moral earnestness, realistic understanding
758 18, 252 | 252. Easily seen is the fault of others,
759 Int | as a basis for personal edification and instruction. In any
760 Pre | wisdom. ~I am grateful to the editors of the Buddhist Publication
761 Int, 2 | freedom from sorrow, the effective means to achieve their objectives.
762 Int, 2 | that law, that through the efficacy of kamma, our willed actions
763 Int, 3 | no self or truly existent ego entity to be found in anything
764 Int, 3 | For practical purposes the eight factors of the path are
765 Int | his message. At the age of eighty, after a long and fruitful
766 Pre | the essential principles elaborated at length in the forty-odd
767 6, 86 | pleasures. The wise show no elation or depression when touched
768 8, 109 | to revere and serve the elders, these four blessing accrue:
769 23, 322 | horses and noble tusker elephants. But better still is the
770 Int, 3 | of Perfect Enlightenment elevates him to a level far surpassing
771 Int | incompatible and may even elicit the judgment that the teaching
772 Int | admiration the Dhammapada has elicited has not been confined to
773 19, 262 | 262. Not by mere eloquence nor by beauty of form does
774 | elsewhere
775 Pre | will taste the bliss of emancipation. ~Due to its immense importance,
776 Int | been overlaid with literary embellishment and the admixture of legend,
777 16, 217 | People hold dear him who embodies virtue and insight, who
778 14, 180 | longer, the entangling and embroiling craving that perpetuates
779 Int | the teachings inevitably emerge from the human condition
780 Int, 3 | fundamental to the picture that emerges is the inescapable duality
781 Int, 3 | and practical discipline emerging out of the aspiration for
782 Int, 2 | unexpressed thoughts, desires and emotions. The Buddha distinguishes
783 25, 369 | Empty this boat, O monk! Emptied, it will sail lightly. Rid
784 25, 369 | 369. Empty this boat, O monk! Emptied,
785 Int | are indicated, all figures enclosed in parenthesis refer to
786 15, 206 | will always be happy by not encountering fools. ~
787 Int, 3 | the misery of unpleasant encounters and painful separations,
788 26, 390 | his mind back from what is endearing. To the extent the intent
789 | ending
790 17, 229 | flawless character, wise, and endowed with knowledge and virtue. ~
791 Int, 2 | to operate, governing the endowments and circumstances of the
792 Int | highly diverse problems, ends, and concerns and with their
793 23, 320 | around, even so shall I endure abuse. There are many, indeed,
794 14, 184 | 184. Enduring patience is the highest
795 5, 69 | Fools of little wit are enemies unto themselves as they
796 Int, 3 | monastic training, devote their energies to a life of meditation.
797 Pre | into numerous languages. In English alone several translations
798 Pre | while consulting a number of English-language editions of the Dhammapada,
799 Int, 3 | without number -- all are engulfed by the irrepressible current.
800 Int | the Dhammapada.] ~Often he enjoins works of merit, yet elsewhere
801 24, 341 | on pleasures and seeking enjoyment, these men fall prey to
802 15, 201 | 201. Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain.
803 | enough
804 Int, 2 | action and its fruit, which ensures that morally determinate
805 Int, 3 | becomes the crucial factor for ensuring that the aspirant keeps
806 21, 291 | 291. Entangled by the bonds of hate, he
807 14, 180 | whom exists no longer, the entangling and embroiling craving that
808 Int | fled the royal city and entered the forest to live as an
809 Int, 3 | glimpse of "the Deathless" and enters irreversibly upon the path
810 Int, 1 | doubts the disciple might entertain as to what he should avoid
811 Int, 3 | self or truly existent ego entity to be found in anything
812 13, 178 | supramundane Fruition of Stream Entrance. 15 ~
813 Int, 3 | resounds throughout. ~The entry-way to the monastic life is
814 Int, 3 | along the way to Nibbana are enumerated as four. At the first, called "
815 Int, 3 | vipassana), and the Dhammapada enunciates the principles to be discerned
816 14, 194 | Buddhas; blessed is the enunciation of the sacred Teaching;
817 25, 365 | what one has received, nor envy the gains of others. The
818 Pre | response to a particular episode. Accounts of these, along
819 5, 64 | companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue
820 Int, 3 | stages which weaken and eradicate still more defilements and
821 Int, 3 | development of the path, eradicated all defilements and freed
822 3, 44 | 41. Ere long, alas! this body will
823 Pre | has sometimes suggested erroneous interpretations, while footnotes
824 Int, 3 | mental defilements, those erupting as unwholesome deeds and
825 13, 174 | Only a few, like birds escaping from the net, go to realms
826 9, 123 | as a trader with a small escort and great wealth would avoid
827 1, 11(2) | of the body, recommended especially as powerful antidotes to
828 Int | as water, though one in essence. assumes different shapes
829 Int, 3 | the Buddha always remains essentially human, yet his attainment
830 Int | legend, but the historical essentials of his life are simple and
831 12, 158 | 158. One should first establish oneself in what is proper;
832 Int, 1 | level is the concern with establishing well-being and happiness
833 Pre | best known and most widely esteemed text in the Pali Tipitaka,
834 21, 294 | self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism), and destroyed
835 Int, 2 | satisfactory context for ethics than mere appeals to altruism
836 Int, 3 | antipodes, and because he cannot evade the necessity to choose,
837 18, 235 | await you. You stand on the eve of your departure, yet you
838 Int, 2 | disappear into nothingness but eventually meets its due retribution,
839 Int | is ubiquitous. It is an ever-fecund source of themes for sermons
840 Int, 3 | for deliverance from the ever-repeating round of births. This is
841 Int | the countless problems of everyday life, a primer for the instruction
842 1, 10(1) | in the scriptures as an evil-minded deity who tries to lead
843 Int, 3 | but an acclamation and exaltation of those who have reached
844 20, 285 | Nibbana, as made known by the Exalted One. ~
845 Int, 3 | A deeper, more searching examination, however, reveals that all
846 Int, 1 | disciple is admonished to examine his own faults, and to make
847 Int | perplex the unwary. For example, in many verses the Buddha
848 Pre | Accounts of these, along with exegesis of the verses, are preserved
849 Int, 3 | ideal reaches its optimal exemplification in the Buddha, the promulgator
850 Int, 1 | deed, word and thought and exercise self-control (231-234).
851 Int, 2 | felicity here and now, but exercises a far more critical influence
852 16, 209 | things to be shunned and not exerting where exertion is needed,
853 16, 209 | shunned and not exerting where exertion is needed, a seeker after
854 Int, 2 | shows that morality does not exhaust its significance in its
855 Int | thus among themselves will exhibit a meaningful development
856 26, 393 | truth and righteousness exist -- he is pure, he is a holy
857 Int, 3 | there is no self or truly existent ego entity to be found in
858 Int | life of meditation, can be expected to count a copy of the book
859 Int, 3 | observation to detect and expel the defiling impulses whenever
860 Int, 2 | higher rebirths and to richer experiences of happiness and joy. To
861 Int | suffering. For six years he experimented with different systems of
862 1, 10(1) | liberation. The commentaries explain Mara as the lord of evil
863 Int | offers a body of instructions explaining the true nature of existence
864 25, 363 | speech, unassuming and who explains the Teaching in both letter
865 Pre | interpretation I have relied on the explanations given in Bhadantacariya
866 Int, 3 | the Buddha's distinctive exposition of the Dhamma, does not
867 Int | good and the true. ~The expounder of the verses that comprise
868 Int | point, and thus must be expressed in such a way as to reach
869 Int | regarded as the most succinct expression of the Buddha's teaching
870 Pre | pure wisdom. As profound expressions of practical spirituality,
871 Int, 3 | The recognition of duality extends beyond the limits of conditioned
872 Int, 3 | hero of the Dhammapada. Extolled in Chapter 7 under his own
873 Int | aspiring for heaven and extols the one who takes no delight
874 Pre | translation avoiding these two extremes would serve a valuable purpose.
875 Int | understanding -- the knowledge which extricates the roots of suffering. ~
876 2, 25 | of heedfulness, the wise exult therein and enjoy the resort
877 1, 19 | worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure
878 25, 360 | Good is restraint over the eye; good is restraint over
879 Int, 3 | concepts and modes of knowing fail to circumscribe his nature:
880 Int, 2 | illness, poverty, ugliness and failure. ~Prescriptively, the second
881 Int, 2 | difficulties and apparent failures, by the fact that it is
882 4, 59 | 56. Faint is the fragrance of tagara
883 7, 97(11) | read thus: "The man who is faithless, ungrateful, a burglar,
884 26, 407 | pride and hypocrisy have fallen off like a mustard seed
885 Int, 3 | contemplate the arising and falling away of all formations,
886 13, 177 | 177. Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms;
887 24, 342 | an entrapped hare. Held fast by mental fetters, they
888 10, 141 | matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting, nor lying on the ground,
889 23, 325 | rolling around in bed like a fat domestic pig, that sluggard
890 Int, 2 | sometimes identified with fate, but this is a total misconception
891 Int | welfare here and now, a favorable rebirth in the next life,
892 Int, 3 | path in all three stages is feasible for people in any walk of
893 Int, 3 | Buddhism. The most arresting feature of this view is its stress
894 15, 200 | we who possess nothing. Feeders on joy we shall be, like
895 15, 202(17) | being -- material form, feeling, perception, mental formations,
896 24, 341 | and watered by craving, feelings of pleasure arise in beings.
897 25, 362 | control over his hands, feet and tongue; who is fully
898 Int, 2 | its contribution to human felicity here and now, but exercises
899 Pre | pedantic, and it was therefore felt that a new translation avoiding
900 7, 90 | 90. The fever of passion exists not for
901 3, 43 | like a well-fortified city, fight out Mara with the sword
902 Int, 3 | rebirths. This is the ideal figure of early Buddhism and the
903 Int | numbers are indicated, all figures enclosed in parenthesis
904 10, 141 | naked, nor matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting, nor lying
905 9, 118 | again and again. let him fin pleasure therein, for blissful
906 Int | any closer to his goal. Finally, in his thirty-fifth year,
907 9, 125 | 125. Like fine dust thrown against the
908 Pre | a valuable purpose. The finished result of that project,
909 26, 404 | and wanders about with no fixed abode and but few wants --
910 Pre | instruction. Insights that flashed into the heart of the Buddha
911 17, 229 | day after day, is one of flawless character, wise, and endowed
912 Int | his twenty-ninth year, he fled the royal city and entered
913 11, 150 | of bones, plastered with flesh and blood; within are decay
914 3, 36 | 33. Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft,
915 13, 171 | royal chariot. Here fools flounder, but the wise have no attachment
916 24, 340 | Everywhere these currents flow, and the creeper (of craving)
917 4, 49 | and plucking out Mara's flower-tipped arrows of sensuality, go
918 24, 341 | 341. Flowing in (from all objects) and
919 Int, 3 | actuality. The universe is in flux, a boundless river of incessant
920 13, 175 | 175. Swans fly on the path of the sun;
921 Int, 3 | conditioned things, his focal aspiration is only for deliverance
922 Int, 3 | concentrated beam of attention is focused upon the constituent factors
923 Pre | attempt by a practicing follower of the Buddha to transmit
924 5, 66 | 63. A fool who knows his foolishness is wise at least to that
925 1, 4 | the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. ~
926 Int | small state in the Himalayan foothills, in what is now Nepal. His
927 Pre | erroneous interpretations, while footnotes have tended to be judgmental. ~
928 Int, 1 | achieved by non-hatred, by forbearance, by love (4-6). One should
929 10, 135 | and death drive the life force of beings (from existence
930 1, 10(1) | Mara as the lord of evil forces, as mental defilements and
931 Int, 3 | assertion that mind is the forerunner of all that we are, the
932 7, 99 | 99. Inspiring are the forests in which worldlings find
933 Int, 1 | avoided by patience and forgiveness, for responding to hatred
934 | former
935 | Formerly
936 25, 370(24) | with form, craving for the formless realms, conceit, restlessness,
937 Int | that the Dhamma assumes its formulation from the needs of the diverse
938 Int, 2 | and reappears in diverse formulations throughout the work (see,
939 1, 23 | Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion,
940 3, 43 | fragile as a clay pot, and fortifying this mind like a well-fortified
941 Int, 2 | people riding the waves of fortune (119-120). Moral intuition
942 Int | Enlightened One. Thereafter, for forty-five years, he traveled throughout
943 Pre | elaborated at length in the forty-odd volumes of the Pali Canon. ~
944 18, 244 | crow, is backbiting and forward, arrogant and corrupt. ~
945 11, 148 | disease, and fragile. This foul mass breaks up, for death
946 Int, 3 | appropriated them as their common foundation. The four truths all center
947 Int, 1 | two directly verifiable foundations: concern for one's own integrity
948 Int | authority, the Dhamma is founded solidly upon the bedrock
949 Int | truths he had discovered and founding an order of monks and nuns
950 Int | vision of the Dhamma. This fourfold schematism develops out
951 18, 252 | s own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham branches. ~
952 4, 58 | 55. Of all the fragrances -- sandal, tagara, blue
953 Pre | presented from a non-Buddhist frame of reference, the teachings
954 22, 310 | Brief is the pleasure of the frightened man and woman, and the king
955 4, 49 | Realizing that this body is like froth, penetrating its mirage-like
956 4, 54 | without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one
957 Int, 1 | himself and his fellow men, to fulfill his family and social responsibilities,
958 Int, 1 | upright life, diligently fulfilling his duties, such as service
959 Int | pedagogical verses on the fundamentals of the Dhamma, to be used
960 8, 108 | one fourth of the merit gained by revering the Upright
961 26, 383(26) | contemplative life dedicated to gaining Arahatship could also be
962 4, 56 | great heap of flowers many garlands can be made, even so should
963 26, 394 | witless man? What of your garment of antelope's hide? Within
964 26, 394(28) | wearing matted hair and garments of hides were considered
965 4, 52 | 49. As a bee gathers honey from the flower without
966 Int, 3 | the Dhammapada cannot be gauged in its true value by a single
967 Int | Gotama (Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gautama) . Raised in luxury, groomed
968 Int | meditation beneath a tree at Gaya, he attained Supreme Enlightenment
969 12, 161 | a diamond grinds a hard gem. ~
970 Int, 1 | affect (129-132). The most general counsel the Dhammapada gives
971 Pre | the Society itself for so generously undertaking the publication
972 26, 408 | 408. He who utters gentle, instructive and truthful
973 24, 354 | 354. The gift of Dhamma excels all gifts;
974 Int, 3 | things to some great and glorious end. The cosmos is beginningless,
975 2, 27 | 24. Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic,
976 6, 89 | things -- rid of cankers, glowing with wisdom, they have attained
977 23, 325 | When a man is sluggish and gluttonous, sleeping and rolling around
978 10, 134 | 134. If, like a broken gong, you silence yourself, you
979 Int, 2 | generosity or detachment, goodwill and understanding. The willed
980 11, 151 | 151. Even gorgeous royal chariots wear out,
981 11, 149 | dove-colored bones are like gourds that lie scattered about
982 Int, 3 | from phase to phase it is governed only by the impersonal,
983 Int, 2 | kamma continues to operate, governing the endowments and circumstances
984 10, 138-40 | of mind, trouble from the government, or grave charges, loss
985 Int | demerit (39, 412). Without a grasp of the underlying structure
986 10, 138-40 | from the government, or grave charges, loss of relatives,
987 19, 260 | Elder because his head is gray. He is but ripe in age,
988 15, 204 | gain and contentment the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person
989 Int | Gautama) . Raised in luxury, groomed by his father to be the
990 Int, 1 | from theistic moorings and grounded upon two directly verifiable
991 2, 31 | of a mountain beholds the groundlings, even so when the wise man
992 Int | certain practices on the grounds that they lead to a heavenly
993 Int | large, the logic behind the grouping together of verses into
994 14, 188 | places -- to hills, woods, groves, trees and shrines. ~
995 19, 260 | age, and he is called one grown old in vain. ~
996 22, 315 | opportunity (for spiritual growth). For those who let slip
997 19, 257 | that sagacious man is a guardian of law and is called just. ~
998 3, 43 | the sword of wisdom. Then, guarding the conquest, remain unattached. ~
999 Int | sermons and discussions, a guidebook for resolving the countless
1000 Pre | spirituality, each verse is a guideline to right living. The Buddha
1001 Int, 1 | the world as a whole. The guidelines appropriate to this level
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