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Buddha’s Dhammapada - 1
Hatred can never put an end to hatred; love alone can. This is an unalterable law.
People forget that their lives will end soon…
For those who remember, quarrels come to an end.
The wise knowing what is trivial and what is vital set their thoughts on the supreme goal and attain
the highest wisdom.
A wise person advances like fire, burning all his fetters…
He strives for perfection (Nirvana) and never falls back.
A well trained and discipline mind brings
health and happiness…
but it is hard to train the mind.
Remember that this body will soon lie in the earth without life, without value, useless as a burned log.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
More than your mother, more than your father, more than all your family…
a well-discipline mind does greater benefit.
The wise live without injuring nature, as the bee drinks honey without harming
the flower.
Better to live in virtue and wisdom for one day than to live a thousand years with an evil and undisciplined mind.
The scent of flowers or sandalwood cannot travel against the wind but the fragrance of good spreads in
all directions.
As a rich merchant traveling alone avoids dangerous roads, as a lover of life avoids poison…
let everyone avoid dangerous deeds.
Long is the night to those who are awake; long is the road to those who are tired. Long is the cycle of birth and death to those who
know not the Dharma.
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path,
walk alone…
There is no companionship with the immature.
If you have no wound on your hand you can touch poison.
Choose the path that leads to ‘Nirvana’; avoid the road
to profit and pleasure.
Always remember this, O disciple of the
Buddha, and strive for wisdom.
To those who honour the wise and follow them…
four gifts will come in increasing measure - health, happiness, beauty and long life.
A wise person is not shaken by praise or blame.
Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If a person
desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know him to be good, wise and virtuous.
If you harm a pure and innocent person, you harm yourself.
Better than a speech of a thousand vain words is one
thoughtful word that brings peace to the mind.
Be victorious over yourself and not over others.
The immature who know they are immature have a little wisdom…
but the immature that look on themselves as wise are utterly Foolish.
