DHAMMAPADA
(Dhp 13) – Lokavagga : Worlds
translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu © 1997–2009
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Don’t consort with heedlessness.
Don’t associate with wrong views.
Don’t busy yourself with the world.
Live the Dhamma well.
One who lives the Dhamma
sleeps with ease
in this world & the next.
Live the Dhamma well.
Don’t live it badly.
One who lives the Dhamma
sleeps with ease
in this world & the next.
170
see it as a mirage:
one who regards the world this way
the King of Death doesn’t see.
all decked out
like a royal chariot,
where fools plunge in,
while those who know
don’t cling.
but later is not,
brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.
His evil-done deed
is replaced with skillfulness:
he brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.
174
how few here see clearly!
Just as birds who’ve escaped
from a net are
few, few
are the people
who make it to heaven.
those with the power fly through space;
the enlightened flee from the world,
having defeated the armies of Mara.
who transgresses in this one thing,
transcending concern for the world beyond:
there’s no evil
he might not do.
to the world of the devas.
Those who don’t praise giving
are fools.
The enlightened
express their approval for giving
and so find ease
in the world beyond.
going to heaven,
lordship over all worlds:
the fruit of stream-entry
excels them.
Provenance: ©1997 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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