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1505 15, 203 | suffering. Knowing this as it really is, the wise realize Nibbana,
1506 Int, 2 | opens the Dhammapada, and reappears in diverse formulations
1507 4, 52(8) | is the Buddhist monk who receives his food by going silently
1508 22, 309 | Four misfortunes befall the reckless man who consorts with another'
1509 Int, 1 | immediate family and to those recluses and brahmans who depend
1510 1, 11(2) | repulsiveness of the body, recommended especially as powerful antidotes
1511 Int, 2 | requires that goodness be recompensed with happiness and evil
1512 Int, 3 | without any aid or guidance, rediscovered the ancient path to deliverance
1513 Int, 2 | imbalance must somehow be redressed. The visible order does
1514 24, 337 | again, as a flood crushes a reed. ~
1515 12, 164(14) | v. 164) Certain reeds of the bamboo family perish
1516 Int | enclosed in parenthesis refer to verse numbers of the
1517 Pre | a non-Buddhist frame of reference, the teachings of the Buddha
1518 Pre | verses contain riddles, references or analogies that may not
1519 Int, 3 | relishing the words. He should reflect on the meaning of each verse
1520 Int, 2 | the recognition that, to reflective thought, the human situation
1521 25, 374 | the discerning one this reflects the Deathless. 25 ~
1522 Int | the Dhammapada has been regarded as the most succinct expression
1523 7, 92 | accumulate and are wise regarding food, whose object is the
1524 26, 383(26) | inward purity and holiness regardless of family lineage. The contrast
1525 Int, 2 | impersonal universal law which reigns over all sentient existence.
1526 17, 222 | charioteer. Others only hold the reins. ~
1527 19, 269 | 269. The sage (thus) rejecting the evil, is truly a sage.
1528 Int, 3 | the craving, ignorance and related mental fetters maintaining
1529 Int, 1 | sphere of concrete human relations. The aim at this level is
1530 Int, 1 | violence which infect human relationships and bring such immense suffering
1531 Int, 3 | thoroughly, investigate its relevance to his life, and apply it
1532 Pre | their interpretation I have relied on the explanations given
1533 8, 104-05(12)| divinity in ancient Indian religion. ~
1534 Int, 1 | most of the great world religions, but in the Buddhist teaching
1535 Int, 3 | fruitful for those who have relinquished all other concerns in order
1536 Int, 3 | day, slowly and carefully, relishing the words. He should reflect
1537 Int, 3 | a man, the Buddha always remains essentially human, yet his
1538 26, 398 | tendencies), he who has removed the crossbar (of ignorance)
1539 18, 239 | own impurities, as a smith removes his dross from silver. ~
1540 24, 350 | make an end of craving and rend asunder Mara's fetter. ~
1541 26, 383(26) | is used as a makeshift rendering for brahmana, intended to
1542 21, 290 | 290. If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may
1543 Int, 3 | conduct. If this is done repeatedly, with patience and perseverance,
1544 24, 353(23) | 353) This was the Buddha's reply to a wandering ascetic who
1545 1, 10(1) | the Tempter in Buddhism, represented in the scriptures as an
1546 10, 143 | restrained by modesty, avoids reproach, as a thoroughbred horse
1547 12, 158 | the wise man will not be reproached. ~
1548 26, 383(26) | for brahmana, intended to reproduce the ambiguity of the Indian
1549 6, 79 | points out faults and who reproves, let him follow such a wise
1550 1, 11(2) | which focus on the inherent repulsiveness of the body, recommended
1551 5, 76 | The fool seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among monks,
1552 21, 303 | virtue, and possesses good repute and wealth -- he is respected
1553 Int, 3 | are not yet ripe but still require further maturation over
1554 Int, 2 | innate sense of moral justice requires that goodness be recompensed
1555 Int, 3 | with the simplest material requisites, moderate in eating, restrained
1556 26, 399 | 399. He who without resentment endures abuse, beating and
1557 7, 95 | one who, like the earth, resents nothing, who is firm as
1558 8, 112 | live one day strenuous and resolute than to live a hundred years
1559 5, 64 | better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course;
1560 Int, 1 | level are concerned with the resolution of conflict and hostility.
1561 Int | forest to live as an ascetic, resolved to find a way to deliverance
1562 14, 189 | the refuge supreme. Not by resorting to such a refuge is one
1563 Int, 3 | call to the monastic life resounds throughout. ~The entry-way
1564 Int, 1 | love (4-6). One should not respond to bitter speech but maintain
1565 Int, 1 | patience and forgiveness, for responding to hatred by further hatred
1566 Int, 1 | fulfill his family and social responsibilities, and to restrain the bitterness,
1567 Int, 3 | choose, he must bear the full responsibility for his decisions. Man's
1568 Int | and veneration of those responsive to the good and the true. ~
1569 18, 237 | Yama, the king of death. No resting place is there for you on
1570 Int, 3 | mindfulness and still the restless waves of thoughts (185,
1571 25, 370(24) | formless realms, conceit, restlessness, and ignorance. Stream-enterers
1572 26, 383(26) | The Buddha attempted to restore to the word brahmana its
1573 25, 373 | 373. The monk who has retired to a solitary abode and
1574 10, 133 | those thus spoken to might retort. Indeed, angry speech hurts,
1575 Int, 2 | eventually meets its due retribution, the good with happiness,
1576 Int, 3 | when the disciple will return to the human world at most
1577 16, 219 | long absence, a man safely returns from afar, his relatives,
1578 Int, 3 | three major groups which reveal more clearly the developmental
1579 Int | bearing a message of divine revelation, but a human being who by
1580 14, 195-96 | reveres those worthy of reverence, the Buddhas and their disciples,
1581 Int, 3 | reading is done carefully and reverentially. It yields its riches only
1582 8, 108 | fourth of the merit gained by revering the Upright Ones, which
1583 Pre | has undergone considerable revision. The newly added subtitle, "
1584 10, 144 | investigation of the truth, by being rich in knowledge and virtue,
1585 Int, 2 | to higher rebirths and to richer experiences of happiness
1586 Pre | debt. A few verses contain riddles, references or analogies
1587 11, 154(13) | rafters the passions and the ridge-pole ignorance. ~
1588 11, 154 | rafters are broken and your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached
1589 Int, 2 | and thoroughly bad people riding the waves of fortune (119-
1590 Int, 1 | compassion, live honestly and righteously, control his sensual desires,
1591 Int, 2 | conditions conducive to their ripening. ~The objective field in
1592 Int, 3 | asunder, and the disciple rises through successive stages
1593 17, 222 | 222. He who checks rising anger as a charioteer checks
1594 25, 370(24) | self-illusion, doubt, belief in rites and rituals, lust and ill-will.
1595 25, 370(24) | doubt, belief in rites and rituals, lust and ill-will. The
1596 6, 83 | Irrigators regulate the rivers; fletchers straighten the
1597 4, 61 | a heap of rubbish in the road-side ditch blooms a lotus, fragrant
1598 6, 84 | 81. Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,
1599 1, 11 | cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never
1600 26, 398 | band (of craving), and the rope (of false views), together
1601 Int, 2 | holds sway over the repeated rotations of the cycle of birth and
1602 9, 123 | wealth would avoid a perilous route, or just as one desiring
1603 Int | thus function as a kind of rubric for classifying the diverse
1604 24, 355 | for riches the witless man ruins himself as well as others. ~
1605 2, 33(5) | v. 30) Indra: the ruler of the gods in ancient Indian
1606 Int | pleasures and privileges of rulership. One night, in his twenty-ninth
1607 Int | B.C., the son of a king ruling over a small state in the
1608 24, 339 | currents of craving strongly rush toward pleasurable objects,
1609 18, 240 | 240. Just as rust arising from iron eats away
1610 8, 106 | hundred years one should offer sacrifices by the thousands, yet if
1611 16, 219 | after a long absence, a man safely returns from afar, his relatives,
1612 Int, 3 | other, where alone true safety is to be found. But all
1613 22, 307 | uncontrolled men wearing the saffron robe. These wicked men will
1614 17, 225 | 225. Those sages who are inoffensive and
1615 3, 42(6) | v. 39) The Arahat is said to be beyond both merit
1616 25, 369 | O monk! Emptied, it will sail lightly. Rid of lust and
1617 Int, 3 | stage of Once-returner (sakadagami), when the disciple will
1618 Int, 3 | investigate and contemplate their salient characteristics. This wisdom,
1619 18, 254(19) | vv. 254-255) Recluse (samana): here used in the special
1620 26, 383(26) | rather than by genuine inner sanctity. The Buddha attempted to
1621 14, 186-87 | sensual pleasures give little satisfaction and much pain. Having understood
1622 Int, 2 | situation demands a more satisfactory context for ethics than
1623 14, 186-87 | 186-187. There is no satisfying sensual desires, even with
1624 20, 288 | kinsmen. None there are to save him -- no sons, nor father,
1625 15, 205 | 205. Having savored the taste of solitude and
1626 11, 149 | are like gourds that lie scattered about in autumn. Having
1627 Int, 3 | providential deity behind the scenes steering all things to some
1628 Pre | including editions by such noted scholars as Max Muller and Dr. S.
1629 Pre | work, compiled by the great scholiast Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa
1630 Int, 3 | many discourses that all schools of Buddhism have appropriated
1631 13, 176 | truthfulness) who holds in scorn the hereafter, there is
1632 12, 164 | account of perverted views, scorns the Teaching of the Perfected
1633 25, 379 | must censure oneself and scrutinize oneself . The self-guarded
1634 Int, 3 | of lives. A deeper, more searching examination, however, reveals
1635 Int, 3 | Withdrawn to silent and secluded places, they seek out the
1636 19, 271-72 | absorption, nor by a life of seclusion, nor by thinking, "I enjoy
1637 Int, 3 | without deviating due to the seductive allurements of sense pleasures
1638 24, 345-6 | one downward and, though seemingly loose, is hard to remove.
1639 | seems
1640 20, 287 | sleeping village, so death seizes and carries away the man
1641 4, 48(7) | The Striver-on-the-Path (sekha): one who has achieved any
1642 Pre | anthology: an unfortunate selection of renderings has sometimes
1643 21, 294 | mother (craving), father (self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism
1644 8, 104-05 | 104-105. Self-conquest is far better then the conquest
1645 Int | judgment that the teaching is self-contradictory. ~The key to resolving these
1646 2, 27 | conduct, discerning and self-controlled, righteous and heedful. ~
1647 Int, 3 | mindfulness and unflagging self-discipline, one can master its vagrant
1648 Int, 3 | depends on nothing but his own self-evolved wisdom (353). Born a man,
1649 25, 379 | scrutinize oneself . The self-guarded and mindful monk will always
1650 25, 370(24) | the five "lower fetters": self-illusion, doubt, belief in rites
1651 24, 347 | samsara) like a spider on its self-spun web. This, too, the wise
1652 23, 323 | Nibbana), as one who is self-tamed goes by his own tamed and
1653 19, 262 | accomplished, if he is jealous, selfish and deceitful. ~
1654 Int, 2 | law, to act in the grip of selfishness and hate, leads downwards --
1655 4, 49 | flower-tipped arrows of sensuality, go beyond sight of the
1656 Int, 2 | law which reigns over all sentient existence. This is the law
1657 16, 211 | Therefore hold nothing dear, for separation from the dear is painful.
1658 Int, 3 | unpleasant encounters and painful separations, the suffering of not obtaining
1659 24, 352 | sacred texts in correct sequence -- he, indeed, is the bearer
1660 Int | unfolding according to the sequential structure of the doctrine,
1661 10, 138-40 | disaster, bodily injury, serious illness, or derangement
1662 Int, 3 | proclaimed already in his first sermon and upon which he placed
1663 Int | ever-fecund source of themes for sermons and discussions, a guidebook
1664 Int, 3 | holy man," the Arahat serves as a living demonstration
1665 Int, 1 | fulfilling his duties, such as service to parents, to his immediate
1666 Int, 3 | found in the Dhammapada sets forth the theoretical framework
1667 18, 237 | come to an end now; You are setting forth into the presence
1668 1, 9 | those who do realize this settle their quarrels. ~
1669 26, 386 | meditative, stainless and settled, whose work is done and
1670 Int, 3 | bound to reach the goal in seven lives at most. This achievement
1671 Int | and subjected himself to severe austerities, but found that
1672 7, 97 | knows the Uncreate, who has severed all links, destroyed all
1673 1, 5 | like his never-departing shadow ~
1674 10, 145 | fletchers straighten arrow shafts, carpenters shape wood,
1675 6, 84 | Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the
1676 18, 252 | crafty fowler hides behind sham branches. ~
1677 18, 244 | 244. Easy for life is the shameless one who is impudent as a
1678 Int | essence. assumes different shapes due to the vessels into
1679 22, 306 | both, on departing they share the same destiny in the
1680 10, 138-40 | 138-140 Sharp pain, or disaster, bodily
1681 11, 154 | broken and your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached the
1682 19, 264 | 264. Not by shaven head does a man who is indisciplined
1683 25, 377 | monks, should you totally shed lust and hatred! ~
1684 25, 377 | Just as the jasmine creeper sheds its withered flowers, even
1685 6, 80 | him admonish, instruct and shield one from wrong; he, indeed,
1686 Int, 3 | Truths, a corresponding shift in emphasis takes place
1687 Int, 3 | the doctrinal emphasis shifts from the principles of kamma
1688 21, 304 | 304. The good shine from afar, like the Himalaya
1689 Int, 3 | 179, 180, 353). ~Always shining in the splendor of his wisdom,
1690 Int, 3 | 194). He is the giver and shower of refuge (190-192), the
1691 Int, 2 | principles of morality are shown now in their broader cosmic
1692 14, 188 | woods, groves, trees and shrines. ~
1693 11, 146 | laughter, why this jubilation? Shrouded in darkness, will you not
1694 4, 57(9) | from a particular kind of shrub. ~
1695 9, 123 | poison, even so should one shun evil. ~
1696 16, 209 | himself to things to be shunned and not exerting where exertion
1697 23, 326 | controls with his ankus [sic] an elephant in rut. ~
1698 Int, 3 | suffering -- birth, old age, sickness and death, the misery of
1699 Int | family name Gotama (Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gautama) . Raised in luxury,
1700 Int | Nepal. His given name was Siddhattha and his family name Gotama (
1701 11, 156 | failed to acquire wealth, lie sighing over the past, like worn
1702 4, 49 | of sensuality, go beyond sight of the King of Death! ~
1703 Int, 2 | morality does not exhaust its significance in its contribution to human
1704 4, 52(8) | receives his food by going silently from door to door with his
1705 Int, 1 | his impurities just as a silversmith purifies silver (50, 239).
1706 Int, 3 | meditation. Content with the simplest material requisites, moderate
1707 Int | arrangement. The work is simply a collection of inspirational
1708 | Since
1709 23, 322 | well-trained mules, thoroughbred Sindhu horses and noble tusker
1710 Pre | Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Sinhala, Burmese and Nepali. I particularly
1711 Int, 3 | he chooses wrongly he can sink to the lowest depths of
1712 21, 305 | 305. He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and
1713 Int, 2 | reflective thought, the human situation demands a more satisfactory
1714 Pre | people in all the diverse situations of life. For the simple
1715 5, 73 | he still is not worth a sixteenth part of the those who have
1716 Int | clear. He was born in the sixth century B.C., the son of
1717 26, 403 | knowledge, who is wise, skilled in discerning the right
1718 22, 309 | acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, ill-repute, and (rebirth
1719 5, 63 | Long is the night to the sleepless; long is the league to the
1720 21, 305 | 305. He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone,
1721 2, 32 | heedless, wide-awake among the sleepy, the wise man advances like
1722 Pre | ancient Pali language, this slim anthology of verses constitutes
1723 20, 280 | young and strong is full of sloth, with a mind full of vain
1724 18, 241 | neglect is the bane of a home; slovenliness is the bane of personal
1725 9, 116 | mind from evil. He who is slow in doing good, his mind
1726 Int, 3 | whole chapter every day, slowly and carefully, relishing
1727 23, 325 | a fat domestic pig, that sluggard undergoes rebirth again
1728 10, 141 | lying on the ground, nor smearing oneself with ashes and dust,
1729 4, 57 | 54. Not the sweet smell of flowers, not even the
1730 18, 239 | his own impurities, as a smith removes his dross from silver. ~
1731 5, 74 | turn sour all at once. But smoldering, it follows the fool like
1732 Int, 1 | speak the truth and live a sober upright life, diligently
1733 3, 42 | awakened one, whose mind is not sodden (by lust) nor afflicted (
1734 13, 178 | 178. Better than sole sovereignty over the earth,
1735 6, 84 | 81. Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the
1736 Int | authority, the Dhamma is founded solidly upon the bedrock of the
1737 Int, 2 | does not yield an evident solution, but the Buddha's teaching
1738 | somehow
1739 Int | sixth century B.C., the son of a king ruling over a
1740 11, 154(13) | verses are the Buddha's "Song of Victory," his first utterance
1741 10, 137 | who are inoffensive, will soon come upon one of these ten
1742 11, 147 | image, a mass of heaped up sores, infirm, full of hankering --
1743 21, 302 | therein. Also difficult and sorrowful is the household life. Suffering
1744 2, 31 | sorrowless sage beholds the sorrowing and foolish multitude. ~
1745 Int, 3 | discussed give us the key for sorting out the Dhammapada's diverse
1746 Int, 3 | Dhammapada again and again sounds this challenge to human
1747 5, 74 | milk that does not turn sour all at once. But smoldering,
1748 13, 178 | 178. Better than sole sovereignty over the earth, better than
1749 Int, 2 | death. Each single life span is seen, rather, as part
1750 Int | twenty-six chapters, it spans the multiple aspects of
1751 Int, 1 | committing adultery, from speaking lies and from taking intoxicants;
1752 25, 378 | well-composed and who has spewn out worldliness -- he, truly,
1753 Int, 3 | achieving progress in all spheres, the Dhammapada declares,
1754 24, 347 | current (of samsara) like a spider on its self-spun web. This,
1755 Pre | expressions of practical spirituality, each verse is a guideline
1756 Int, 3 | Always shining in the splendor of his wisdom, the Buddha
1757 Int | in the highly condensed. spontaneous and intuitively charged
1758 Int, 2 | isolated occurrence beginning spontaneously with birth and ending in
1759 5, 67 | comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the
1760 26, 413 | who, like the moon, is spotless and pure, serene and clear,
1761 Int, 2 | volitional action, action springing from intention, which may
1762 24, 340 | Seeing that the creeper has sprung up, cut off its root with
1763 11, 147 | which nothing is lasting or stable! ~
1764 10, 135 | cattle to pasture with a staff, so do old age and death
1765 Int, 3 | of sense pleasures or the stagnating influences of laziness and
1766 Int, 3 | to free oneself from the stains of greed, hatred and delusion,
1767 18, 235 | messengers await you. You stand on the eve of your departure,
1768 Int | as to reach human beings standing at different levels of spiritual
1769 Int | teaching, offering a variety of standpoints from which to gain a glimpse
1770 Int, 2 | the desire for existence stands intact. Rebirth can take
1771 15, 208 | follows the path of the stars. 12 ~ ~
1772 Int | structure of the Dhamma, such statements viewed side by side will
1773 26, 383(26) | Originally men of spiritual stature; by the time of the Buddha
1774 24, 349 | of pleasure, his craving steadily grows. He makes the fetter
1775 Int, 3 | the mind made clear and steady, they learn to contemplate
1776 Int, 1 | from destroying life, from stealing, from committing adultery,
1777 25, 380 | trader controls a noble steed. ~
1778 Int, 3 | deity behind the scenes steering all things to some great
1779 Int, 1 | from clouds (173). ~The sterling qualities distinguishing
1780 24, 335 | overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow
1781 Int, 3 | minimizes distractions and stimulants to craving and orders all
1782 Int, 3 | restrained in their senses, they stir up their energy, abide in
1783 Int | life, aphoristic wisdom and stirring message of a way to freedom
1784 22, 313 | vigor. A lax monastic life stirs up the dust of passions
1785 Int | the Awakened One." The story of this venerable personage
1786 Int, 3 | the aspirant keeps to the straight path of training without
1787 12, 162 | Just as a single creeper strangles the tree on which it grows,
1788 4, 48(7) | supramundane attainment: a Stream-enterer, Once-returner, or Non-returner. ~
1789 25, 370(24) | restlessness, and ignorance. Stream-enterers and Once-returners cut off
1790 26, 389 | 389. One should not strike a holy man, nor should a
1791 26, 389 | anger. Shame on him who strikes a holy man, and more shame
1792 4, 48 | 45. A striver-on-the path shall overcome this
1793 24, 345-6 | that, they say, is a far stronger fetter, which pulls one
1794 24, 339 | thirty-six currents of craving strongly rush toward pleasurable
1795 Int, 3 | decline. His actions are strung out between these moral
1796 Int, 3 | riches only through repeated study, sustained reflection, and
1797 24, 350 | 350. He who delights in subduing evil thoughts, who meditates
1798 Int | chapter is its mention of the subject indicated in the chapter'
1799 Int | systems of meditation and subjected himself to severe austerities,
1800 1, 11(2) | The impurities (asubha): subjects of meditation which focus
1801 26, 390 | that extent does suffering subside. ~
1802 Int, 3 | impermanent, without any lasting substance, and thus, for those who
1803 Int, 3 | being impermanent and substanceless, are intrinsically unsatisfactory.
1804 26, 418 | tranquil, is rid of the substrata of existence and like a
1805 Pre | revision. The newly added subtitle, "The Buddha's Path of Wisdom,"
1806 Int, 3 | further maturation over a succession of lives. A deeper, more
1807 Int | been regarded as the most succinct expression of the Buddha'
1808 20, 284 | is in bondage, like the sucking calf to its mother. ~
1809 Pre | of the Buddha inevitably suffer some distortion. This, in
1810 Int | disturbing encounter with the sufferings of life, as a result of
1811 Int, 3 | disciple of mature faculties, sufficiently prepared by previous experience
1812 Int | the Dhammapada, we will suggest a schematism of four levels
1813 Pre | Society for their helpful suggestions. and to the Society itself
1814 20, 286 | rains, here in winter and summer" -- thus thinks the fool.
1815 26, 396 | attachments, he is just a supercilious man. But who is free from
1816 4, 62 | mortals the disciple of the Supremely Enlightened One shines resplendent
1817 1, 12 | the monk's yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe. ~
1818 Int, 3 | they seek an opportunity to surface. In a world where man has
1819 Int, 3 | elevates him to a level far surpassing that of common humanity.
1820 Int | small town of Kusinara, surrounded by a large number of disciples. ~
1821 Pre | Minor Collection") of the Sutta Pitaka, but its popularity
1822 Int, 3 | river of incessant becoming sweeping everything along; dust motes
1823 4, 50 | 47. As a mighty flood sweeps away the sleeping village,
1824 Int, 1 | the Buddha declares, is sweeter than the scent of all flowers
1825 4, 58 | fragrance of virtue is the sweetest. ~
1826 24, 339 | pleasurable objects, is swept away by the flood of his
1827 24, 347 | lust-infatuated fall back into the swirling current (of samsara) like
1828 3, 43 | fight out Mara with the sword of wisdom. Then, guarding
1829 Int | this may be a metaphorical symbol rather than a point of doctrine.
1830 Pre | unsophisticated the Dhammapada is a sympathetic counselor; for the intellectually
1831 Int | experimented with different systems of meditation and subjected
1832 18, 243 | this one taint and become taintless, O monks! ~
1833 | taking
1834 26, 394 | hide? Within you is the tangle (of passion); only outwardly
1835 Int, 3 | of suffering is craving (tanha), the desire for pleasure
1836 24, 334 | leaps from life to life (tasting the fruit of his kamma). ~
1837 Int, 3 | life, the dichotomies which taunt and challenge man at every
1838 Int, 1 | code of Buddhism, which teach abstinence from destroying
1839 Pre | in grateful memory of my teachers, parents and relatives,
1840 12, 159 | One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would
1841 5, 70 | one, weeping, reaps with tears. ~
1842 Int, 2 | 119-120). Moral intuition tells us that if there is any
1843 1, 10(1) | v. 7) Mara: the Tempter in Buddhism, represented
1844 10, 137 | soon come upon one of these ten states: ~
1845 8, 107 | hundred years one should tend the sacrificial fire in
1846 Pre | interpretations, while footnotes have tended to be judgmental. ~The present
1847 Int | as Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, the influence of the Dhammapada
1848 16, 209 | envies those intent upon theirs. ~
1849 Int, 1 | teaching they are freed from theistic moorings and grounded upon
1850 Int | an ever-fecund source of themes for sermons and discussions,
1851 | Thereafter
1852 | thereby
1853 Int | his goal. Finally, in his thirty-fifth year, while sitting in deep
1854 26, 398 | He who has cut off the thong (of hatred), the band (of
1855 20, 275 | discovered how to pull out the thorn of lust, I make known the
1856 24, 351 | and has plucked out the thorns of existence -- for him
1857 Int, 3 | radical renunciation. The thoughtful, who have seen the transience
1858 Int | at certain points a loose thread of development can be discerned. ~
1859 14, 193 | wise man is born, that clan thrives happily. ~
1860 3, 37 | of water and cast on land throbs and quivers, even so is
1861 Int | father to be the heir to the throne, in his early manhood he
1862 1, 10 | 7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does
1863 21, 295 | two extreme views), and a tiger as the fifth (the five mental
1864 5, 73 | may eat his food with the tip of a blade of grass, but
1865 Pre | esteemed text in the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of
1866 17, 227 | practice, not one only of today: they blame those who remain
1867 Int | the concern with a common topic. The twenty-six chapter
1868 Int, 3 | vagrant tendencies, escape the torrents of the passions and find "
1869 23, 324 | captivity, the tusker does not touch a morsel, but only longingly
1870 | toward
1871 2, 31 | heedfulness and ascends the high tower of wisdom, this sorrowless
1872 Int | peacefully in the small town of Kusinara, surrounded
1873 Pre | to the Theravada Buddhist tradition, each verse in the Dhammapada
1874 Int, 3 | rebirths, bringing in its trail sorrow, anxiety, and despair (
1875 7, 94 | subdued like horses well trained by a charioteer, whose pride
1876 Pre | of the verses, however. transcend the limited and particular
1877 Int, 3 | striving and movement towards transcendence. The starting point is the
1878 14, 190-91 | his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the Four Noble Truths --
1879 18, 240 | so, their own deeds lead transgressors to states of woe. ~
1880 Int, 3 | thoughtful, who have seen the transience and hidden misery of worldly
1881 Pre | follower of the Buddha to transmit the spirit and content,
1882 Int | for forty-five years, he traveled throughout northern India,
1883 21, 303 | everywhere, in whatever land he travels. ~
1884 26, 414 | 414. He who, having traversed this miry, perilous and
1885 Int, 3 | indicate the path; the work of treading it lies in the hands of
1886 21, 294 | objects) together with its treasurer (attachment and lust), ungrieving
1887 Int, 1 | 247). The disciple should treat all beings with kindness
1888 14, 188 | to hills, woods, groves, trees and shrines. ~
1889 26, 397 | having cut off all fetters, trembles no more, who has overcome
1890 1, 10(1) | an evil-minded deity who tries to lead people from the
1891 Int, 3 | overcome all barriers and to triumph even over death itself. ~
1892 10, 138-40 | or derangement of mind, trouble from the government, or
1893 15, 204 | contentment the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person is the best kinsman,
1894 14, 194 | spiritual pursuit of the united truth-seeker. ~
1895 26, 408 | gentle, instructive and truthful words, who imprecates none --
1896 24, 344 | 344. There is one who, turning away from desire (for household
1897 24, 339(21) | relation to each of the twelve bases -- the six sense organs,
1898 Int | rulership. One night, in his twenty-ninth year, he fled the royal
1899 Int, 2 | suffering; on the other our typical experience shows us virtuous
1900 Int | influence of the Dhammapada is ubiquitous. It is an ever-fecund source
1901 Int, 2 | life, illness, poverty, ugliness and failure. ~Prescriptively,
1902 Pre | right living. The Buddha unambiguously pointed out that whoever
1903 10, 137 | violence on those who are unarmed, and offends those who are
1904 18, 242 | 242. Unchastity is the taint in a woman;
1905 23, 324 | tusker named Dhanapalaka is uncontrollable. Held in captivity, the
1906 24, 352 | attachment, is perfect in uncovering the true meaning of the
1907 24, 338 | again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until
1908 23, 325 | domestic pig, that sluggard undergoes rebirth again and again. ~
1909 Pre | edition, the translation has undergone considerable revision. The
1910 Int | Without a grasp of the underlying structure of the Dhamma,
1911 7, 97(11) | series of puns, and if the "underside" of each pun were to be
1912 Int, 3 | path to death. The wise who understand this distinction abide in
1913 Pre | itself for so generously undertaking the publication of this
1914 5, 76 | 73. The fool seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among
1915 1, 16 | so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. ~
1916 14, 179 | whose victory nothing can undo, whom none of the vanquished
1917 21, 302 | comes from association with unequals; suffering comes from wandering
1918 Int, 3 | Dhammapada begins with an unequivocal assertion that mind is the
1919 Int, 2 | or remain internally as unexpressed thoughts, desires and emotions.
1920 26, 385 | is free of cares and is unfettered -- him do I call a holy
1921 Int, 3 | effort, mindfulness and unflagging self-discipline, one can
1922 Int, 3 | and penetrating wisdom to unfold without impediments, adoption
1923 Int | usually proceed methodically, unfolding according to the sequential
1924 Pre | happened with our anthology: an unfortunate selection of renderings
1925 7, 97(11) | The man who is faithless, ungrateful, a burglar, who destroys
1926 22, 310 | acquires demerit and an unhappy birth in the future. Brief
1927 3, 44 | will lie upon the earth, unheeded and lifeless, like a useless
1928 Int, 3 | mind is made calm, pure and unified, purged of the currents
1929 24, 353(23) | Enlightenment was his own unique attainment, which he had
1930 14, 194 | spiritual pursuit of the united truth-seeker. ~
1931 Int | practice which gains its unity from its final goal, the
1932 Int, 3 | defining mark of actuality. The universe is in flux, a boundless
1933 6, 87 | does not desire success by unjust means. ~
1934 | Unless
1935 10, 144 | being mindful, destroy this unlimited suffering. ~
1936 Int, 3 | and death, the misery of unpleasant encounters and painful separations,
1937 Int, 3 | friend (42, 43). The mind is unruly, fickle, difficult to subdue,
1938 Int, 3 | sorrow, but as the pervasive unsatisfactoriness of everything conditioned (
1939 21, 304 | mountains. But the wicked are unseen, like arrows shot in the
1940 Pre | life. For the simple and unsophisticated the Dhammapada is a sympathetic
1941 3, 36 | his mind -- so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard. ~
1942 Int, 3 | all, the knower of all, untainted by the world (179, 180,
1943 23, 323 | however, would one go to the Untrodden Land (Nibbana), as one who
1944 19, 264 | who is indisciplined and untruthful become a monk. How can he
1945 Int | inconsistencies which may perplex the unwary. For example, in many verses
1946 Int, 3 | Eightfold Path as the means to uproot the craving that nurtures
1947 Int, 2 | follow the ethical law leads upwards -- to inner development,
1948 Int, 3 | 105). ~What is needed most urgently to train and subdue the
1949 26, 394 | 394. What is the use of your matted hair, O witless
1950 Int | prose sections of the Canon usually proceed methodically, unfolding
1951 11, 154(13) | Song of Victory," his first utterance after his Enlightenment.
1952 Int, 2 | is a total misconception utterly inapplicable to the Buddhist
1953 Int, 3 | self-discipline, one can master its vagrant tendencies, escape the torrents
1954 Pre | Venerable Narada Mahathera of Vajirarama, Colombo. Sri Lanka, and
1955 7, 98 | it a village, a forest, a vale, or a hill. ~
1956 Int, 3 | application, it is perfectly valid as a preparatory or provisional
1957 Pre | two extremes would serve a valuable purpose. The finished result
1958 24, 344(22) | puns with the Pali word vana meaning both "desire" and "
1959 14, 179 | can undo, whom none of the vanquished defilements can ever pursue? ~
1960 24, 354 | delights. The Craving-Freed vanquishes all suffering. ~
1961 13, 175 | away from the world after vanquishing Mara and his host. ~
1962 Int | development or a set of variations on a theme. But by and large,
1963 Int | Buddha's teaching, offering a variety of standpoints from which
1964 26, 395 | rags, who is lean, with veins showing all over the body,
1965 Int | for it the devotion and veneration of those responsive to the
1966 Int, 1 | only maintains the cycle of vengeance and retaliation. The true
1967 17, 232 | controlled in speech. Abandoning verbal misconduct, let him practice
1968 Int, 1 | grounded upon two directly verifiable foundations: concern for
1969 Int | different shapes due to the vessels into which it is poured,
1970 12, 157 | oneself. Let the wise man keep vigil during any of the three
1971 17, 226 | 226. Those who are ever vigilant, who discipline themselves
1972 22, 313 | one do it with sustained vigor. A lax monastic life stirs
1973 6, 81 | seek the fellowship of the vile. Associate with the good
1974 Int, 2 | reveals the factor needed to vindicate our cry for moral justice
1975 10, 134 | approached Nibbana, for vindictiveness is no longer in you. ~
1976 Int, 2 | of happiness and joy. To violate the law, to act in the grip
1977 13, 176 | 176. For a liar who has violated the one law (of truthfulness)
1978 Int, 1 | taking intoxicants; one who violates these five training rules "
1979 26, 406 | hostile, peaceful amidst the violent, and unattached amidst the
1980 Int, 3 | development of insight (vipassana), and the Dhammapada enunciates
1981 1, 13 | depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control
1982 Int | in the total systematic vision of the Dhamma. This fourfold
1983 Int, 3 | difficult and demanding, the voice of the Buddha speaks words
1984 Int, 2 | Buddhist doctrine. Kamma means volitional action, action springing
1985 Pre | teachings. ~In preparing this volume I have had access to numerous
1986 Pre | length in the forty-odd volumes of the Pali Canon. ~According
1987 7, 97(11) | destroys opportunities and eats vomit -- he truly is the most
1988 13, 167 | 167. Follow not the vulgar way; live not in heedlessness;
1989 4, 59 | fragrance of the virtuous, wafting even amongst the gods. ~
1990 Int, 3 | feasible for people in any walk of life. The Buddha taught
1991 20, 275 | 275. Walking upon this path you will
1992 21, 302 | Therefore, be not an aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering. ~
1993 20, 282 | without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two
1994 26, 387 | moon shines by night. The warrior shines in armor, the holy
1995 21, 294 | father (self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism),
1996 Int, 3 | than that of the mightiest warriors (103-105). ~What is needed
1997 12, 157 | during any of the three watches of the night. ~
1998 20, 281 | 281. Let a man be watchful of speech, well controlled
1999 24, 341 | in (from all objects) and watered by craving, feelings of
2000 10, 145 | Irrigators regulate the waters, fletchers straighten arrow
2001 3, 41 | Teaching and whose faith wavers. ~
2002 Int, 3 | two further stages which weaken and eradicate still more
2003 11, 151 | gorgeous royal chariots wear out, and indeed this body
2004 5, 63 | long is the league to the weary. Long is worldly existence
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