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1002 9, 125 | an inoffensive, pure and guiltless man. ~
1003 22, 311 | Just as kusa grass wrongly handled cuts the hand, even so,
1004 11, 147 | up sores, infirm, full of hankering -- of which nothing is lasting
1005 Pre | This, in fact, has already happened with our anthology: an unfortunate
1006 Int, 2 | virtuous people beset with hardships and afflictions and thoroughly
1007 12, 163 | things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly
1008 14, 185 | 185. Not despising, not harming, restraint according to
1009 19, 270 | called noble because he is harmless towards all living beings. ~
1010 10, 133 | 133. Speak not harshly to anyone, for those thus
1011 Int | indicated in the chapter's heading . In some cases (Chapters
1012 Int | The twenty-six chapter headings thus function as a kind
1013 11, 147 | painted image, a mass of heaped up sores, infirm, full of
1014 Int, 3 | precious opportunity to hear and practice the excellent
1015 22, 310 | woman, and the king imposes heavy punishment. Hence, let no
1016 10, 141 | dust, nor sitting on the heels (in penance) can purify
1017 Int | by his father to be the heir to the throne, in his early
1018 Pre | Publication Society for their helpful suggestions. and to the
1019 24, 345-6 | is made of iron, wood or hemp. But the infatuation and
1020 Int | contemplative, withdrawn to forest hermitage or mountainside cave for
1021 26, 422 | Noble, the Excellent, the Heroic, the Great Sage, the Conqueror,
1022 26, 394 | your garment of antelope's hide? Within you is the tangle (
1023 26, 396 | because of his lineage or high-born mother. If he is full of
1024 26, 383(26) | between the two meanings is highlighted in verses 393 and 396. Those
1025 7, 98 | a forest, a vale, or a hill. ~
1026 14, 188 | refuge to many places -- to hills, woods, groves, trees and
1027 Int | over a small state in the Himalayan foothills, in what is now
1028 Pre | languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Sinhala, Burmese
1029 21, 295 | the fifth (the five mental hindrances), ungrieving goes the holy
1030 Int, 3 | highest levels of meditation, hinges upon training the mind.
1031 Int | admixture of legend, but the historical essentials of his life are
1032 6, 88 | only run up and down the hither bank. ~
1033 19, 268 | that man is wise who, as if holding a balance-scale accepts
1034 Int, 3 | himself worthy even of the homage of the gods. The paths to
1035 Int, 3 | social bonds, abandon their homes and mundane pleasures, and
1036 Int, 1 | kindness and compassion, live honestly and righteously, control
1037 Int | sage called the Buddha, an honorific title meaning "the Enlightened
1038 Int, 3 | purpose. Infusing him with hope and inspiration, gradually
1039 13, 175 | vanquishing Mara and his host. ~
1040 Int, 1 | resolution of conflict and hostility. Quarrels are to be avoided
1041 10, 138-40 | relatives, or loss of wealth, or houses destroyed by ravaging fire;
1042 26, 420 | track no gods, no angels, no humans trace, the Arahat who has
1043 Pre | project, presented here, is a humble attempt by a practicing
1044 Pre | direct teachings inspire humility and reflection; for the
1045 15, 203 | 203. Hunger is the worst disease, conditioned
1046 10, 133 | retort. Indeed, angry speech hurts, and retaliation may overtake
1047 26, 407 | lust and hatred, pride and hypocrisy have fallen off like a mustard
1048 26, 385(27) | corresponding objects; both: I-ness and my-ness. ~
1049 24, 344 | the life of the forest (i.e., of a monk). But after being
1050 Int, 1 | to this level are largely identical with the basic ethical injunctions
1051 Int, 2 | understanding kamma is sometimes identified with fate, but this is a
1052 26, 383(26) | original connotation by identifying the true "holy man" as the
1053 20, 280 | 280. The idler who does not exert himself
1054 Int, 2 | ii) In its second level of
1055 Int, 3 | iii) The ethical counsel based
1056 3, 45 | or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself
1057 22, 309 | demerit, disturbed sleep, ill-repute, and (rebirth in) states
1058 1, 16 | as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates
1059 25, 370(24) | rites and rituals, lust and ill-will. The five to be abandoned
1060 25, 382 | the Teaching of the Buddha illumines this world like the moon
1061 11, 147 | Behold this body -- a painted image, a mass of heaped up sores,
1062 22, 318 | 318. Those who imagine evil where there is none,
1063 Int, 2 | value to righteousness, the imbalance must somehow be redressed.
1064 1, 10 | uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and
1065 19, 257 | arbitrarily, but passes judgment impartially according to the truth,
1066 26, 396 | mother. If he is full of impeding attachments, he is just
1067 Int, 3 | different style of life becomes imperative, one which minimizes distractions
1068 Int, 3 | only by the impersonal, implacable law of arising, change,
1069 Pre | emancipation. ~Due to its immense importance, the Dhammapada has been
1070 Int, 3 | sustained reflection, and most importantly, through the application
1071 22, 310 | and woman, and the king imposes heavy punishment. Hence,
1072 26, 408 | and truthful words, who imprecates none -- him do I call a
1073 Int, 2 | performed they leave subtle imprints on the mind, seeds with
1074 18, 244 | the shameless one who is impudent as a crow, is backbiting
1075 Int, 3 | detect and expel the defiling impulses whenever they seek an opportunity
1076 Pre | were either too free and inaccurate or too pedantic, and it
1077 Int, 3 | understood the intrinsic inadequacy of all conditioned things,
1078 Int, 2 | total misconception utterly inapplicable to the Buddhist doctrine.
1079 Int | neither a god, a divine incarnation, or a prophet bearing a
1080 Int, 3 | flux, a boundless river of incessant becoming sweeping everything
1081 Int, 3 | conditioned existence to include the antithetical poles of
1082 Pre | Theravada Buddhism. The work is included in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("
1083 Int | and the reason behind the inclusion of any given verse in a
1084 Int | side by side will appear incompatible and may even elicit the
1085 Int | delivery can result in apparent inconsistencies which may perplex the unwary.
1086 Int, 3 | defilements and bring the goal increasingly closer to view. One is called
1087 Int, 3 | found. But all he can do is indicate the path; the work of treading
1088 19, 264 | shaven head does a man who is indisciplined and untruthful become a
1089 16, 218 | One who is intent upon the Ineffable (Nibbana), dwells with mind
1090 Int, 3 | from the present, from the ineluctable immediate occasion of conscious
1091 Int, 3 | picture that emerges is the inescapable duality of human life, the
1092 24, 345-6 | iron, wood or hemp. But the infatuation and longing for jewels and
1093 Int, 1 | conflict and violence which infect human relationships and
1094 Int, 2 | power, and ranged below infernal worlds of extreme suffering. ~
1095 11, 147 | mass of heaped up sores, infirm, full of hankering -- of
1096 21, 291 | seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never
1097 Int, 3 | pleasures or the stagnating influences of laziness and complacency.
1098 Int, 3 | meaning and sense of purpose. Infusing him with hope and inspiration,
1099 1, 11(2) | meditation which focus on the inherent repulsiveness of the body,
1100 Int, 3 | worth; for they are all inherently impermanent, without any
1101 Int, 3 | contemplation. After his initial reading, he would do well
1102 20, 283(20) | 283) The meaning of this injunction is: "Cut down the forest
1103 19, 270 | 270. He is not noble who injures living beings. He is called
1104 4, 52 | from the flower without injuring its color or fragrance,
1105 10, 138-40 | pain, or disaster, bodily injury, serious illness, or derangement
1106 19, 261 | is truthfulness, virtue, inoffensiveness, restraint and self-mastery,
1107 4, 51 | of distracted mind who, insatiate in sense desires, only plucks
1108 Int | Free from all dogmas and inscrutable claims to authority, the
1109 Int, 3 | principles to be discerned by insight-wisdom: that all conditioned things
1110 Pre | and practical instruction. Insights that flashed into the heart
1111 Int | is simply a collection of inspirational or pedagogical verses on
1112 Pre | clear and direct teachings inspire humility and reflection;
1113 16, 218 | Nibbana), dwells with mind inspired (by supramundane wisdom),
1114 18, 255 | that are eternal, and no instability in the Buddhas. ~ ~
1115 Int | Dhamma, offers a body of instructions explaining the true nature
1116 26, 408 | 408. He who utters gentle, instructive and truthful words, who
1117 Int, 3 | out the company of wise instructors, and guided by the rules
1118 Int, 2 | desire for existence stands intact. Rebirth can take place
1119 Int, 3 | Instead it falls on the integral development of the Noble
1120 Int, 1 | foundations: concern for one's own integrity and long-range happiness
1121 Pre | sympathetic counselor; for the intellectually overburdened its clear and
1122 Int | by his own striving and intelligence has reached the highest
1123 26, 383(26) | rendering for brahmana, intended to reproduce the ambiguity
1124 Int | used in the Dhammapada. The intensified power of delivery can result
1125 Int | There also seems to be no intentional design in the order of the
1126 Int | result of which he lost all interest in the pleasures and privileges
1127 Int, 3 | words of practical counsel. Interlaced with the verses specific
1128 Int, 2 | deeds or speech, or remain internally as unexpressed thoughts,
1129 Pre | or notes, and for their interpretation I have relied on the explanations
1130 Pre | sometimes suggested erroneous interpretations, while footnotes have tended
1131 Int | develops out of an ancient interpretive maxim which holds that the
1132 20, 286 | danger (that death might intervene). ~
1133 16, 210 | 210. Seek no intimacy with the beloved and also
1134 Int, 1 | speaking lies and from taking intoxicants; one who violates these
1135 18, 246-47 | wife, and is addicted to intoxicating drinks -- such a man digs
1136 Int, 3 | gods. Having understood the intrinsic inadequacy of all conditioned
1137 Int, 3 | impermanent and substanceless, are intrinsically unsatisfactory. The second
1138 Int | Introduction~by Bhikkhu Bodhi~ ~From
1139 Int, 2 | fortune (119-120). Moral intuition tells us that if there is
1140 Int | condensed. spontaneous and intuitively charged medium of verse
1141 19, 256 | just; a wise man is he who investigates both right and wrong. ~
1142 10, 144 | effort and meditation, by investigation of the truth, by being rich
1143 Int, 2 | connections, as tied to an invisible but all-embracing law which
1144 Int, 3 | all are engulfed by the irrepressible current. There is no creator
1145 Int, 2 | life is not viewed as an isolated occurrence beginning spontaneously
1146 Int, 2 | of wholesome kamma will issue in long life, health, wealth,
1147 Int, 2 | which the injunctions are issued and the aim for the sake
1148 Int, 3 | the destruction of craving issues in release from suffering,
1149 Int, 3 | attainment of Nibbana. ~(iv) The fourth level of teaching
1150 2, 32 | horse leaving behind a weak jade. ~
1151 19, 262 | become accomplished, if he is jealous, selfish and deceitful. ~
1152 11, 150 | decay and death, pride and jealousy. ~
1153 24, 345-6 | infatuation and longing for jewels and ornaments, children
1154 23, 328 | impediments, keep his company joyously and mindfully. ~
1155 19, 257 | 257. He who does not judge others arbitrarily, but
1156 Pre | footnotes have tended to be judgmental. ~The present translation
1157 19, 256 | Not by passing arbitrary judgments does a man become just;
1158 Int, 2 | observance of morality is justified, despite its difficulties
1159 3, 42(6) | virtuous actions no longer bear kammic fruit. ~
1160 Int, 3 | and words, are checked and kept under control. By the training
1161 Pre | work is included in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Minor Collection")
1162 26, 405 | weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill --
1163 Int, 1 | should treat all beings with kindness and compassion, live honestly
1164 21, 295 | mother, father, two brahman kings (two extreme views), and
1165 15, 204 | trustworthy person is the best kinsman, Nibbana the highest bliss. ~
1166 22, 311 | 311. Just as kusa grass wrongly handled cuts
1167 Int | peacefully in the small town of Kusinara, surrounded by a large number
1168 23, 320 | There are many, indeed, who lack virtue. ~
1169 Int, 3 | loftiest celestial abodes, are lacking in genuine worth; for they
1170 26, 402 | end of suffering, who has laid aside the burden and become
1171 Int, 1 | brahmans who depend on the laity for their maintenance (332-
1172 14, 195-96 | the reach of sorrow and lamentation -- he who reveres such peaceful
1173 1, 18 | grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting
1174 11, 155 | failed to acquire wealth, languish like old cranes in the pond
1175 Int, 1 | appropriate to this level are largely identical with the basic
1176 26, 398 | with the appurtenances (latent evil tendencies), he who
1177 11, 146 | is ever ablaze, why this laughter, why this jubilation? Shrouded
1178 22, 313 | with sustained vigor. A lax monastic life stirs up the
1179 Int, 3 | to monks, and many of his lay followers reached high stages
1180 5, 77 | 74. "Let both laymen and monks think that it
1181 Int, 3 | The Buddha taught it to laypeople as well as to monks, and
1182 Int, 3 | stagnating influences of laziness and complacency. Heedfulness,
1183 5, 63 | the sleepless; long is the league to the weary. Long is worldly
1184 26, 395 | robe made of rags, who is lean, with veins showing all
1185 24, 334 | fruits in the forest, he leaps from life to life (tasting
1186 Int, 3 | made clear and steady, they learn to contemplate the arising
1187 | least
1188 23, 329 | life, then, like a king who leaves behind a conquered kingdom,
1189 2, 32 | advances like a swift horse leaving behind a weak jade. ~
1190 Int | embellishment and the admixture of legend, but the historical essentials
1191 Pre | principles elaborated at length in the forty-odd volumes
1192 25, 371 | swallow a red-hot iron ball, lest you cry when burning, "O
1193 25, 363 | explains the Teaching in both letter and spirit -- whatever he
1194 Int, 3 | in the world as the Great Liberator who shows man the way to
1195 3, 44 | the earth, unheeded and lifeless, like a useless log. ~
1196 11, 146 | darkness, will you not see the light? ~
1197 23, 326 | mind wandered about as it liked, where it wished and according
1198 26, 418 | He who, having cast off likes and dislikes, has become
1199 Pre | however. transcend the limited and particular circumstances
1200 Int, 3 | duality extends beyond the limits of conditioned existence
1201 13, 167 | heedlessness; hold not false views; linger not long in worldly existence. ~
1202 Int | their completeness, all link together into a single perfectly
1203 7, 97 | Uncreate, who has severed all links, destroyed all causes (for
1204 Pre | Path of Wisdom," is not literal, but is fully applicable
1205 Int | often been overlaid with literary embellishment and the admixture
1206 22, 311 | a recluse's life wrongly lived drags one to states of woe. ~
1207 Int, 2 | various realms the Buddha locates in kamma, our own willed
1208 10, 141 | about naked, nor matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting,
1209 Int, 3 | existence in samsara, even the loftiest celestial abodes, are lacking
1210 3, 44 | lifeless, like a useless log. ~
1211 Int | theme. But by and large, the logic behind the grouping together
1212 23, 329 | conquered kingdom, or like a lone elephant in the elephant
1213 Int, 3 | faculties and also as the long-term ideal for those in need
1214 23, 324 | touch a morsel, but only longingly calls to mind the elephant
1215 1, 10(1) | commentaries explain Mara as the lord of evil forces, as mental
1216 Int | as a result of which he lost all interest in the pleasures
1217 Int, 1 | and wherever he goes he is loved and respected (303-304). ~
1218 Int, 3 | wrongly he can sink to the lowest depths of degradation, if
1219 24, 337 | This I say to you: Good luck to all assembled here! Dig
1220 Pre | crystallized into these luminous verses of pure wisdom. As
1221 24, 347 | 347. Those who are lust-infatuated fall back into the swirling
1222 Int | Siddhartha Gautama) . Raised in luxury, groomed by his father to
1223 10, 141 | filth, nor fasting, nor lying on the ground, nor smearing
1224 Pre | second in 1966, both by the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore,
1225 Pre | the late Venerable Narada Mahathera of Vajirarama, Colombo.
1226 23, 326 | master it with wisdom as a mahout controls with his ankus [
1227 Int, 3 | verses specific to these four main levels, there runs throughout
1228 Int, 1 | respond to bitter speech but maintain silence (134). One should
1229 Int, 3 | and related mental fetters maintaining bondage break asunder, and
1230 Int, 1 | hatred by further hatred only maintains the cycle of vengeance and
1231 Int, 1 | depend on the laity for their maintenance (332-333). ~A large number
1232 Int, 3 | are arranged into three major groups which reveal more
1233 | makes
1234 26, 383(26) | Holy man" is used as a makeshift rendering for brahmana,
1235 Int | the throne, in his early manhood he went through a deeply
1236 Int, 2 | from intention, which may manifest itself outwardly as bodily
1237 20, 285 | off your affection in the manner of a man plucks with his
1238 Int, 3 | Dhammapada be used as a manual for contemplation. After
1239 Int, 3 | persistence as the defining mark of actuality. The universe
1240 26, 394(28) | of hides were considered marks of holiness. ~
1241 Int, 1 | 223). By developing and mastering these qualities within himself,
1242 12, 160 | controlled, one gains a mastery that is hard to gain. ~
1243 Int | human condition as their matrix and starting point, and
1244 Int, 3 | but still require further maturation over a succession of lives.
1245 Int, 3 | suffering. The disciple of mature faculties, sufficiently
1246 Pre | by such noted scholars as Max Muller and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
1247 Int | an ancient interpretive maxim which holds that the Buddha'
1248 Int | themselves will exhibit a meaningful development or a set of
1249 8, 102 | than reciting a hundred meaningless verses is the reciting of
1250 14, 195-96 | none can compute by any measure. ~
1251 25, 371 | 371. Meditate, O monk! Do not be heedless.
1252 1, 11 | overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is
1253 Int | and intuitively charged medium of verse used in the Dhammapada.
1254 15, 207 | the wise is happy, like meeting one's own kinsmen. ~
1255 Int, 2 | nothingness but eventually meets its due retribution, the
1256 Int | particular chapter is its mention of the subject indicated
1257 Int | verses into a chapter is merely the concern with a common
1258 26, 383(26) | man" as the Arahat, who merits the title through his own
1259 18, 235 | leaf are you now; death's messengers await you. You stand on
1260 Int | 4 and 23) this may be a metaphorical symbol rather than a point
1261 Int | the Canon usually proceed methodically, unfolding according to
1262 Int, 3 | greater than that of the mightiest warriors (103-105). ~What
1263 4, 50 | 47. As a mighty flood sweeps away the sleeping
1264 5, 74 | immediately bear fruit, like milk that does not turn sour
1265 23, 328 | his company joyously and mindfully. ~
1266 Int, 3 | becomes imperative, one which minimizes distractions and stimulants
1267 Pre | in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Minor Collection") of the Sutta
1268 13, 170 | world as a bubble and a mirage, him the King of Death sees
1269 4, 49 | like froth, penetrating its mirage-like nature, and plucking out
1270 26, 414 | who, having traversed this miry, perilous and delusive round
1271 21 | 21 - Miscellaneous~Translated from the Pali
1272 Int, 2 | fate, but this is a total misconception utterly inapplicable to
1273 17, 223 | by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome
1274 13, 177 | 177. Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms;
1275 22, 309 | 309. Four misfortunes befall the reckless man
1276 24, 339 | 339. The misguided man in whom the thirty-six
1277 1, 14 | 11. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential
1278 Int, 3 | peace, he is the inspiring model who shows in his own person
1279 Int, 3 | our familiar concepts and modes of knowing fail to circumscribe
1280 18, 245 | Difficult is life for the modest one who always seeks purity,
1281 10, 143 | world who, restrained by modesty, avoids reproach, as a thoroughbred
1282 Int, 2 | more critical influence in molding personal destiny. This level
1283 24, 334 | like a creeper. Like the monkey seeking fruits in the forest,
1284 Int, 1 | are freed from theistic moorings and grounded upon two directly
1285 Int, 2 | fruit, which ensures that morally determinate action does
1286 23, 324 | tusker does not touch a morsel, but only longingly calls
1287 20, 283(20) | forest of lust, but do not mortify the body." ~
1288 Int, 3 | sweeping everything along; dust motes and mountains, gods and
1289 Int | withdrawn to forest hermitage or mountainside cave for a life of meditation,
1290 5, 69 | unto themselves as they move about doing evil deeds,
1291 15, 207 | 207. Indeed, he who moves in the company of fools
1292 23, 322 | Excellent are well-trained mules, thoroughbred Sindhu horses
1293 Pre | such noted scholars as Max Muller and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
1294 Int | twenty-six chapters, it spans the multiple aspects of the Buddha's
1295 2, 31 | the sorrowing and foolish multitude. ~
1296 Int, 3 | abandon their homes and mundane pleasures, and enter upon
1297 23, 324 | 324. Musty during rut, the tusker named
1298 26, 385(27) | objects; both: I-ness and my-ness. ~
1299 | myself
1300 2, 33(5) | the gods in ancient Indian mythology. ~
1301 10, 141 | 141. Neither going about naked, nor matted locks, nor filth,
1302 23, 324 | Musty during rut, the tusker named Dhanapalaka is uncontrollable.
1303 Pre | work by the late Venerable Narada Mahathera of Vajirarama,
1304 Int, 2 | to show human beings, who naturally desire happiness and freedom
1305 Int, 3 | samsara and Nibbana, the "near shore" and the "far shore."
1306 Int, 3 | because he cannot evade the necessity to choose, he must bear
1307 Int | foothills, in what is now Nepal. His given name was Siddhattha
1308 Pre | Bengali, Sinhala, Burmese and Nepali. I particularly benefited
1309 11, 148 | worn out is this body, a nest of disease, and fragile.
1310 1, 5 | happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow ~
1311 Pre | considerable revision. The newly added subtitle, "The Buddha'
1312 Pre | it far above the single niche it occupies in the scriptures
1313 18, 242 | is the taint in a woman; niggardliness is the taint in a giver.
1314 21, 294 | warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism), and destroyed a country (
1315 Pre | included in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Minor Collection") of
1316 Int | way to Nibbana (Sanskrit: Nirvana), final release from suffering.
1317 8, 103 | battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself. ~
1318 17, 223 | 223. Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by
1319 Pre | However, when presented from a non-Buddhist frame of reference, the
1320 18, 241 | 241. Non-repetition is the bane of scriptures;
1321 25, 370(24) | the first three fetters, Non-returners the next two and Arahats
1322 21, 300 | delight in the practice of non-violence. ~
1323 Int | he traveled throughout northern India, proclaiming the truths
1324 25, 360 | good is restraint over the nose; good is restraint over
1325 20, 279 | 279. "All things are not-self" -- when one sees this with
1326 25, 374(25) | v. 374) See note to v. 202. ~
1327 Pre | including editions by such noted scholars as Max Muller and
1328 Int, 2 | does not disappear into nothingness but eventually meets its
1329 Int | primer for the instruction of novices in the monasteries. Even
1330 Int, 3 | uproot the craving that nurtures the process of rebirth itself.
1331 Int, 2 | to their ripening. ~The objective field in which the seeds
1332 Int, 2 | effective means to achieve their objectives. The content of this teaching
1333 8, 108 | 108. Whatever gifts and oblations one seeking merit might
1334 19, 271-72 | 271-272. Not by rules and observances, not even by much learning,
1335 Pre | of the Dhammapada, it was observed that the renderings were
1336 14, 195-96 | who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond the reach
1337 4, 57(9) | Tagara: a fragrant powder obtained from a particular kind of
1338 Int, 3 | separations, the suffering of not obtaining what one wants. It culminates
1339 Pre | above the single niche it occupies in the scriptures to the
1340 Int, 2 | not viewed as an isolated occurrence beginning spontaneously
1341 Int | teaching, known as the Dhamma, offers a body of instructions explaining
1342 4, 53 | others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others.
1343 25, 370(24) | ignorance. Stream-enterers and Once-returners cut off the first three
1344 Int, 2 | rebirth, kamma continues to operate, governing the endowments
1345 7, 97(11) | a burglar, who destroys opportunities and eats vomit -- he truly
1346 10, 132 | seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings
1347 Int, 3 | Arahat ideal reaches its optimal exemplification in the Buddha,
1348 Int, 3 | stimulants to craving and orders all activities around the
1349 Pre | particular circumstances of their origin, reaching out through the
1350 Pre | verses of the Dhammapada all originate from the Buddha's wisdom
1351 24, 345-6 | and longing for jewels and ornaments, children and wives -- that,
1352 16, 217 | who himself does what he ought to be doing. ~
1353 Int, 3 | Dhammapada is not on the outer cosmos, but on the human
1354 19, 266 | others' alms. Not by adopting outward form does one become a true
1355 Pre | for the intellectually overburdened its clear and direct teachings
1356 24, 336 | 336. But whoever overcomes this wretched craving, so
1357 23, 328 | a good life, you should, overcoming all impediments, keep his
1358 Int | personage has often been overlaid with literary embellishment
1359 2, 33 | Heedfulness did Indra become the overlord of the gods. Heedfulness
1360 10, 133 | hurts, and retaliation may overtake you. ~
1361 1, 4 | follows the foot of the ox. ~
1362 15, 205 | and peace (of Nibbana), pain-free and stainless he becomes,
1363 11, 147 | 147. Behold this body -- a painted image, a mass of heaped
1364 Int, 2 | announced already by the pair of verses which opens the
1365 1 | 1 - The Pairs~Translated from the Pali
1366 1, 22 | of others -- he does not partake of the blessings of the
1367 1, 23 | other world -- he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy
1368 Pre | Sinhala, Burmese and Nepali. I particularly benefited from the excellent
1369 15, 207 | fools is ever painful, like partnership with an enemy. But association
1370 19, 257 | others arbitrarily, but passes judgment impartially according
1371 24, 349 | by evil thoughts, who is passion-dominated and given to the pursuit
1372 24, 343 | Therefore, one who yearns to be passion-free should destroy his own craving. ~
1373 24, 339 | away by the flood of his passionate thoughts. 21 ~
1374 20, 273 | the best; of all things passionlessness is the best: of men the
1375 10, 135 | cowherd drives the cattle to pasture with a staff, so do old
1376 19, 258 | one speaks much. He who is peaceable, friendly and fearless is
1377 Int | fruitful life, he passed away peacefully in the small town of Kusinara,
1378 Int, 3 | contemplation reaches its peak in the development of insight (
1379 Int | collection of inspirational or pedagogical verses on the fundamentals
1380 Pre | free and inaccurate or too pedantic, and it was therefore felt
1381 10, 141 | sitting on the heels (in penance) can purify a mortal who
1382 Int, 3 | When these truths are penetrated by direct experience, the
1383 15, 202(17) | material form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and
1384 Pre | the earnest seeker it is a perennial source of inspiration and
1385 Int, 3 | Buddhist faith in human perfectibility consummates the Dhammapada'
1386 3, 42(6) | defilements, he can no longer perform evil actions; and as he
1387 Int, 2 | without a trace, but once performed they leave subtle imprints
1388 Int, 2 | willed actions a person performs in the course of his life
1389 Int, 1 | scent of all flowers and perfumes (55-56). The good man, like
1390 12, 164(14) | reeds of the bamboo family perish immediately after producing
1391 14, 180 | embroiling craving that perpetuates becoming? ~
1392 Int | inconsistencies which may perplex the unwary. For example,
1393 Int, 3 | repeatedly, with patience and perseverance, it is certain that the
1394 2, 26 | meditative and steadfastly persevering, alone experience Nibbana,
1395 Int, 3 | stress on process rather than persistence as the defining mark of
1396 Int | story of this venerable personage has often been overlaid
1397 Int | the needs of the diverse persons to whom it is addressed,
1398 Int, 2 | The difference lies in the perspective from which the injunctions
1399 Int, 1 | A large number of verses pertaining to this first level are
1400 4, 57 | Truly the virtuous man pervades all directions with the
1401 Int, 3 | pain and sorrow, but as the pervasive unsatisfactoriness of everything
1402 12, 164 | Whoever, on account of perverted views, scorns the Teaching
1403 Int, 3 | declaration that all constituent phenomena of body and mind, "the aggregates
1404 23, 325 | bed like a fat domestic pig, that sluggard undergoes
1405 7, 95 | nothing, who is firm as a high pillar and as pure as a deep pool
1406 Pre | Collection") of the Sutta Pitaka, but its popularity has
1407 Int, 3 | over death itself. ~The pivotal role in achieving progress
1408 Int, 3 | sermon and upon which he placed so much stress in his many
1409 Int, 3 | take rebirth in a celestial plane, bound to win final deliverance
1410 11, 150 | body) is built of bones, plastered with flesh and blood; within
1411 Int, 3 | Dhammapada declares, is played by the mind. In contrast
1412 9, 120 | the doer of good sees (the pleasant results of) his good deeds. ~
1413 24, 339 | craving strongly rush toward pleasurable objects, is swept away by
1414 24, 351 | craving, passionless, and has plucked out the thorns of existence --
1415 4, 49 | mirage-like nature, and plucking out Mara's flower-tipped
1416 26, 411 | free from doubts and has plunged into the Deathless -- him
1417 Int | classifying the diverse poetic utterances of the Master,
1418 Pre | The Buddha unambiguously pointed out that whoever earnestly
1419 Int, 3 | include the antithetical poles of the conditioned and the
1420 11, 155 | languish like old cranes in the pond without fish. ~
1421 7, 95 | pillar and as pure as a deep pool free from mud. ~
1422 Pre | and Professor Bhagwat of Poona, India; To them I acknowledge
1423 Int, 2 | with suffering. ~In the popular understanding kamma is sometimes
1424 Pre | the Sutta Pitaka, but its popularity has raised it far above
1425 Int | attached to our anthology means portions, aspects, or sections of
1426 10, 142 | well-attired, yet if he is posed, calm, controlled and established
1427 21, 303 | of faith and virtue, and possesses good repute and wealth --
1428 Int | book among his few material possessions. Yet the admiration the
1429 Int, 3 | his own person that it is possible to free oneself from the
1430 Int | vessels into which it is poured, so the Dhamma of liberation
1431 Int, 2 | in short life, illness, poverty, ugliness and failure. ~
1432 4, 57(9) | 54) Tagara: a fragrant powder obtained from a particular
1433 1, 11(2) | recommended especially as powerful antidotes to lust. ~
1434 13, 175 | through the air by psychic powers; the wise are led away from
1435 Pre | is a humble attempt by a practicing follower of the Buddha to
1436 Int | merit, yet elsewhere he praises the one who has gone beyond
1437 6, 86 | everything. The virtuous do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures.
1438 5, 76 | seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among monks, authority over
1439 Int, 1 | should adhere to the five precepts, the fundamental moral code
1440 Pre | Preface~by Acharya Buddharakkhita~ ~
1441 Int, 3 | is perfectly valid as a preparatory or provisional teaching
1442 Int, 3 | faculties, sufficiently prepared by previous experience for
1443 Pre | original teachings. ~In preparing this volume I have had access
1444 Int, 3 | suffering, and the fourth prescribes the means to gain release,
1445 Int, 2 | ugliness and failure. ~Prescriptively, the second level of teaching
1446 7, 97(11) | In the Pali this verse presents a series of puns, and if
1447 Pre | exegesis of the verses, are preserved in the classic commentary
1448 1, 11 | Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain,
1449 24, 341 | enjoyment, these men fall prey to birth and decay. ~
1450 26, 392 | 392. Just as a brahman priest reveres his sacrificial
1451 26, 383(26) | turned into a privileged priesthood which defined itself by
1452 Int | problems of everyday life, a primer for the instruction of novices
1453 Int, 3 | deliverance of mind. ~In principle, the practice of the path
1454 16, 217 | virtue and insight, who is principled, has realized the truth,
1455 26, 383(26) | brahmans had turned into a privileged priesthood which defined
1456 Int | interest in the pleasures and privileges of rulership. One night,
1457 Int | sections of the Canon usually proceed methodically, unfolding
1458 Int, 3 | 273), which the Buddha had proclaimed already in his first sermon
1459 Int | throughout northern India, proclaiming the truths he had discovered
1460 12, 161 | himself, born of himself and produced by himself, grinds him as
1461 12, 164 | that fool, like the bamboo, produces fruits only for self destruction. 14 ~
1462 12, 164(14) | perish immediately after producing fruits. ~
1463 Pre | Colombo. Sri Lanka, and Professor Bhagwat of Poona, India;
1464 24, 352 | He is truly called the profoundly wise one, the great man. ~
1465 Int, 3 | cannot provide the decisive program of personal training commended
1466 Pre | finished result of that project, presented here, is a humble
1467 Int, 3 | exemplification in the Buddha, the promulgator and master of the entire
1468 Int | divine incarnation, or a prophet bearing a message of divine
1469 Int, 1 | basic ethical injunctions proposed by most of the great world
1470 20, 288 | assailed by death there is no protection by kinsmen. None there are
1471 18, 248 | and wickedness drag you to protracted misery. ~
1472 Int, 3 | creator of this process, no providential deity behind the scenes
1473 Int, 3 | valid as a preparatory or provisional teaching for those whose
1474 13, 175 | pass through the air by psychic powers; the wise are led
1475 Pre | of this translation was published in 1959 and a second in
1476 20, 275 | Having discovered how to pull out the thorn of lust, I
1477 3, 37 | 34. As a fish when pulled out of water and cast on
1478 24, 345-6 | far stronger fetter, which pulls one downward and, though
1479 7, 97(11) | the "underside" of each pun were to be translated, the
1480 Int, 1 | impurities just as a silversmith purifies silver (50, 239). Even if
1481 Int, 3 | rebirth itself. For practical purposes the eight factors of the
1482 21, 302 | aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering. ~
1483 Int, 2 | recognition of the law of kamma, put forth to show human beings,
1484 1, 23 | recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice,
1485 Int, 3 | and subdue the mind is a quality called heedfulness (appamada).
1486 22, 312 | observance, any life of questionable celibacy -- none of these
1487 5, 68 | associates with a wise man, quickly he comprehends the Truth,
1488 5, 78 | quest for worldly gain, and quite another is the path to Nibbana.
1489 3, 37 | cast on land throbs and quivers, even so is this mind agitated.
1490 Pre | as Max Muller and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. However, when presented
1491 15, 200 | joy we shall be, like the Radiant Gods. ~
1492 Int, 3 | monastic life is an act of radical renunciation. The thoughtful,
1493 Int, 1 | for a man's ways can be radically changed, and one who abandons
1494 26, 395 | who wears a robe made of rags, who is lean, with veins
1495 Pre | in the scriptures to the ranks of a world religious classic.
1496 10, 143 | 143. Only rarely is there a man in this world
1497 10, 138-40 | or houses destroyed by ravaging fire; upon dissolution of
1498 Pre | circumstances of their origin, reaching out through the ages to
1499 Int, 3 | special field for those ready to dedicate their lives
1500 26, 399 | punishment; whose power, real might, is patience -- him
1501 Int | known its moral earnestness, realistic understanding of human life,
1502 Int | own clear comprehension of reality, and it leads the one who
1503 Int, 3 | through successive stages of realization to the full attainment of
1504 16, 217 | who is principled, has realized the truth, and who himself
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