Dhammapada

Dhammapada Chapter 1 - The Pairs - Victimization, Nature, and the Mind

1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts...

Dhammapada Chapter 2 - Heedfulness - Benefits of Meditation, The Only True Happiness

21. Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead...

Dhammapada Chapter 3 - The Mind - The Body, Enemies and Family

33. Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind — so fickle and unsteady, so difficult...

Dhammapada Chapter 4 - Flowers - Distracted Minds and The Fragrance of Virtue

44. Who shall overcome this earth, this realm of Yama and this sphere of men and gods? Who shall bring to perfection the well-taught path...

Dhammapada Chapter 5 - The Fool - Self Destruction and The Quest for Worldly Gain

60. Long is the night to the sleepless; long is the league to the weary. Long is worldly existence to fools who know not the Sublime...

Dhammapada Chapter 6 - The Wise - Self Control and The Virtuous Life

76. Should one find a man who points out faults and who reproves, let him follow such a wise and sagacious person as one would a guide to...

Dhammapada Chapter 7 - The Arahant or Perfected One - Freedom to Discover Peace and Calm

90. The fever of passion exists not for him who has completed the journey, who is sorrowless and wholly set free, and has broken all...

Dhammapada Chapter 8 - The Thousands - Self-Conquest Leads to Beauty, Happiness and Power

100. Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace. 101. Better than a thousand useless verses...

Dhammapada Chapter 9 - Evil - There is No Escape From the Results of Evil Deeds

116. Hasten to do good; restrain your mind from evil. He who is slow in doing good, his mind delights in evil. 117. Should a person...

Dhammapada Chapter 10 - Violence - Angry Speech Hurts and It Spews From the Mouths of the Ignorant

129. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill....

Dhammapada Chapter 11 - Old Age - Avoid a Life of Regret and Stagnation

146. When this world is ever ablaze, why this laughter, why this jubilation? Shrouded in darkness, will you not see the light? 147....

Dhammapada Chapter 12 - The Self - Establish in Oneself What is Proper Before Instructing Others

157. If one holds oneself dear, one should diligently watch oneself. Let the wise man keep vigil during any of the three watches of the...

Dhammapada Chapter 13 - The World - Righteousness, Generosity, and the Mirage of Distraction

167. Follow not the vulgar way; live not in heedlessness; hold not false views; linger not long in worldly existence. 168. Arise! Do not...

Dhammapada Chapter 14 - The Buddha - Cleansing of the Mind and the Pursuit of United Truth

179. By what track can you trace that trackless Buddha of limitless range, whose victory nothing can undo, whom none of the vanquished...

Dhammapada Chapter 15 - Happiness - Solitude, Victory and Peace

197. Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred. 198. Happy indeed we live, friendly...

Dhammapada Chapter 16 - Affection - Separation from Attachment and Craving

209. Giving himself to things to be shunned and not exerting where exertion is needed, a seeker after pleasures, having given up his true...

Dhammapada Chapter 17 - Anger - Renounce Pride and Abandon Bodily Misconduct

221. One should give up anger, renounce pride, and overcome all fetters. Suffering never befalls him who clings not to mind and body and...

Dhammapada Chapter 18 - Impurity - Ignorance is the Worst Taint, The Worst of All Evil Things

235. Like a withered leaf are you now; death's messengers await you. You stand on the eve of your departure, yet you have made no...

Dhammapada Chapter 19 - The Just - Wisdom Comes from Being Peaceable, Friendly and Fearless

256. Not by passing arbitrary judgments does a man become just; a wise man is he who investigates both right and wrong. 257. He who does...

Dhammapada Chapter 20 - The Path - Wisdom, Morality and Meditation

273. Of all the paths the Eightfold Path is the best; of all the truths the Four Noble Truths are the best; of all things passionlessness...

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