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 suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
心は全ての精神的状態に先行し、心が全ての主で全ては心の作ったものである。
若し穢れた心で人が話し、若しくは行動すると、牛の足跡を（牛が引く荷馬車の）車輪が追いかける様に苦悩がその人を追いかける。
Phenomena are preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
If you speak or act
with a corrupted heart,
then suffering follows you —
as the wheel of the cart,
the track of the ox
that pulls it.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow
心は全ての精神的状態に先行し、心が全ての主で全ては心の作ったものである。
若し穢れの無い心で話し、若しくは行動をすると、常に離れない影の様に幸福がその人の後を追う。
Phenomena are preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
If you speak or act
with a calm, bright heart,
then happiness follows you,
like a shadow
that never leaves.
3. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
『彼は私を虐待した．彼は私を殴った。彼は私を打ち負かした。彼は私から盗んだ。』この様な念を抱く人は憎しみを鎮めることが出来ない。
He insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me’
– for those who brood on this,
hostility isn’t stilled.
4. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
『彼は私を虐待した．彼は私を殴った。彼は私を打ち負かした。彼は私から盗んだ。』この様な念を抱かない人は憎しみを鎮めることが出来る。
‘He insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me’ —
for those who don’t brood on this,
hostility is stilled.
5. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
この世に置いて、憎しみは憎しみで静める事は出来ない。憎しみを持たない事だけが憎しみを静める事が出来る。此れは永遠の法である。
Hostilities aren’t stilled
through hostility,
regardless.
Hostilities are stilled
through non-hostility:
this, an unending truth.
6. There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
何時の日か我々全ては死ななければならないと言う事を実感してない人々が居る。然しこの事を認識している人々は争いを鎮める事が出来る。
Unlike those who don’t realize
that we’re here on the verge
of perishing,
those who do:
their quarrels are stilled.
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