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Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.14- 4.7 Mara and virtuous

Mara never finds the path of the truly virtuous, who abide in heedfulness and are freed by perfect knowledge. Upon a heap of rubbish in the road-side ditch bloo...

Dhammapadda Series : @ Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.10- 4.13 Fragrance of virtue

As from a great heap of flowers many garlands can be made, even so should many good deeds be done by one born a mortal. Not the sweet smell of flowers, not even...

Dhammapadda Series : @ Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.8- 4.9 Flower with fragrance vs without

Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them. Like a beautiful flower fu...

Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.7 Mind your own business

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. @ Dhammapadda Series : T...

Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.5- 4.6 Destroyer

The Destroyer brings under his sway the person of distracted mind who, insatiate in sense desires, only plucks the flowers (of pleasure). As a bee gathers honey...

Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.3- 4.4 The flower of pleasure

Realizing that this body is like froth, penetrating its mirage-like nature, and plucking out Mara's flower-tipped arrows of sensuality, go beyond sight of the K...

Dhammapadda Series : The Flowers, verse 4.1- 4.2 Eexpert garland-maker

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 of wisdom as an expert gar...

Dhammapadda Series : The Mind, verse 3.8- 3.11 Well-directed mind

Realizing that this body is as fragile as a clay pot, and fortifying this mind like a well-fortified city, fight out Mara with the sword of wisdom. Then, guardi...

Dhammapadda Series : The Mind, verse 3.5- 3.7 Steadfast mind

Dwelling in the cave (of the heart), the mind, without form, wanders far and alone. Those who subdue this mind are liberated from the bonds of Mara. Wisdom neve...

Dhammapadda Series : The Mind, verse 3.1- 3.4 Tamed guarded mind

Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind — so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard. As a fish when p...

Dhammapadda Series : The Heedfulness verse 2.11- 2.12 The monk in heedfulness

The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters, small and large. The monk who delights in heed...

Dhammapadda Series : The Heedfulness verse 2.7- 2.10 The heedless and heedful

Do not give way to heedlessness. Do not indulge in sensual pleasures. Only the heedful and meditative attain great happiness. Just as one upon the summit of a m...

Dhammapadda Series : The Heedfulness verse 2.5- 2.6 The Wise & foolish

By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. The foolish and ignorant indul...

Dhammapadda Series : The Heedfulness verse 2.3- 2.4 The Wise

The wise ones, ever meditative and steadfastly persevering, alone experience Nibbana, the incomparable freedom from bondage. Ever grows the glory of him who is ...

Dhammapadda Series : The Heedfulness verse 2.1- 2.2

Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already. Clearly understanding thi...

Dhammapadda Series : The pairs verse 1.19 - 1.20 Holy life

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others — he does not partake ...

Dhammapadda Series : The pairs verse 1.17 -1.18 karma

The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers in both the worlds. The thought, "Evil have I done," torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to re...

Dhammapadda Series : The pairs verse 1.15- 1.15 Consequences of good and evil

The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds. The doer of good rejoic...

Dhammapadda Series : The pairs verse 1.13 - 1.14 Passion

Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so pass...

Dhammapadda Series : The pairs verse 1.11 - 1.12 Essential

Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the ESSENTIAL. Those who know...