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Dhammapada
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258-259*259:

Simply talking a lot
doesn't mean one is wise.
Whoever's secure --
    no     hostility,
        fear --
is said to be wise.

Simply talking a lot
doesn't maintain the Dhamma.
Whoever
-- although he's heard next to nothing --
    sees Dhamma through his body,
    is not heedless of Dhamma:
he's one who maintains the Dhamma.

 



259: "Sees Dhamma through his body": The more common expression in the Pali Canon is to touch Dhamma through or with the body (phusati or phassati, he touches, rather than passati, he sees). The Sanskrit recensions and the Patna Dhp all support the reading, "he would touch," but all Pali recensions are unanimous in the reading, "he sees." Some scholars regard this latter reading as a corruption of the verse; I personally find it a more striking image than the common expression.





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