Quotes from the Dhammapada

[tommyrp12]

11/7/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death.

He who, seeking his own happiness, does not punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/8/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

If, like a shattered metal plate (gong), thou utter nothing, then thou hast reached Nirvana; anger is not known to thee.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/9/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

As a cowherd with his drives his cows into the stable, so do age and death drive the life of men.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/10/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

A fool does not know when he commits his evil deeds: but the wicked man burns by his own deeds, as if burned by fire.

He who inflicts pain on innocent and harmless persons, will soon come to one of these ten states -

He will have cruel suffering, loss, injury of the body, heavy affliction, or loss of mind.

A misfortune coming from the king, or a fearful accusation, or loss of relations, or destruction of treasures.

Lightning-fire will bun his houses; and when his body is destroyed the fool will go to hell.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/11/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

Not nakedness, not platted hair, not dirt, not fasting, or lying on earth, not rubbing with dust, not sitting motionless, can purify a mortal who has not overcome desires.

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquility, iquiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is a Brahmana, an ascetic (sramana), a friar (bhikshu).

 

[tommyrp12]

11/12/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

Is there in this world any man so restrained by shame that he does not provoke reproof, as a noble horse the whip?

Like a noble horse when touched by the whip, be ye strenuous an eager, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation, by discernment of the law you will overcome this great pain, perfect in knowledge and in behavior, and never forgetful.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/23/14

Chapter 10: Punishment

Well-makers lead water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; goo people fashion themselves.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/24/14

Chapter 12: Self

If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully; during one at least out of the three watches a wise man should be watchful.

Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him teach others; thus a wise man will not suffer.

If a man make himself as he teaches others to be,then, being himself well subdued ,he may subdue others; for ones own self is indeed difficult to subdue.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.

 

[tommyrp12]

11/26/14

Chapter 12: Self

The evil done by one's self, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks even a precious stone.

He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

 

[tommyrp12]

12/3/14

Chapter 12: Self

The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arhat), of the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows the false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.

By one's self the evil is done, by one's self one suffers; by ones self evil is left undone, by one's self one is purified. The pure and impure stand and fall by themselves, no one can purify another.

Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.

 

[westkyle]

12/3/14

Chapter 11: Self

The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arhat), of the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows the false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.

By one's self the evil is done, by one's self one suffers; by ones self evil is left undone, by one's self one is purified. The pure and impure stand and fall by themselves, no one can purify another.

Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.

How do I find my duty?

 

[tommyrp12]

How do I find my duty?

Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.

By one's self the evil is done, by one's self one suffers; by ones self evil is left undone, by one's self one is purified. The pure and impure stand and fall by themselves, no one can purify another.

So I guess it is something to ask yourself. Its a personal question . I hope you enjoy the rest of the quotes and I appreciate the question.

 

[westkyle]

So I guess it is something to ask yourself. Its a personal question . I hope you enjoy the rest of the quotes and I appreciate the question.

Crap. I thought it would be easier than that. Maybe my duty is to destroy my laziness. Thanks for this thread.

 

[tommyrp12]

12/7/14

Chapter 13: The world

Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world.

Rouse thyself! Do not be idle! Follow the law of virtue! The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and the next.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and the next.

 

[westkyle]

12/7/14

Chapter 13: The world

Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world.

Rouse thyself! Do not be idle! Follow the law of virtue! The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and the next.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and the next.

I needed this today, thanks.

 

[tommyrp12]

12/10/14

Chapter 13: The world

Look upon this world as you would a bubble, look upon it as you would on a mirage: the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.

Come, look at this glittering world, like unto a royal chariot; the foolish are immersed in it, but the wise do not touch it.

 

[tommyrp12]

12/17/14

Chapter 13: The world

He who formerly was reckless and afterward became sober, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.

He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.

 

[tommyrp12]

12/30/14

Chapter 13: The world

This world is dark, few only can see here; a few only go to heaven, like birds escaped from the net.

The swans go on the path of the sun, they go miraculously through the ether; the wise are led out of this world, when they have conquered Mara and his train.

 

[tommyrp12]

1/7/15

Chapter 13: The world

If a man has transgressed the one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do.

The uncharitable do not go to the world of the gods; fools only do not praise liberality; a wise man rejoices in liberality; and through it becomes blessed in the other world.

Better than sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all worlds, is the reward of sotapatti, the first step in holiness.

 

[tommyrp12]

1/12/15

Chapter 14: The Buddha ( The Awakened)

He whose conquest cannot be conquered again, into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the awakened, the omniscient, the trackless

He whom no desire with its snares and poisons can lead astray, by what track can you lead him, the awakened, the omniscient, the trackless?