- If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise man renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater.
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Entangled by the bonds of hate, he who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred.
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The cankers only increase for those who are arrogant and heedless, who leave undone what should be done and do what should not be done.
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The cankers cease for those mindful and clearly comprehending ones who always earnestly practice mindfulness of the body, who do not resort to what should not be done, and steadfastly pursue what should be done.
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Having slain mother (craving), father (self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism), and destroyed a country (sense organs and sense objects) together with its treasurer (attachment and lust), ungrieving goes the holy man.
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Having slain mother, father, two brahman kings (two extreme views), and a tiger as the fifth (the five mental hindrances), ungrieving goes the holy man.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Buddha.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Dhamma.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Sangha.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice Mindfulness of the Body.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of non-violence.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of meditation.
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Difficult is life as a monk; difficult is it to delight therein. Also difficult and sorrowful is the household life. Suffering comes from association with unequals; suffering comes from wandering in samsara. Therefore, be not an aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering.
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He who is full of faith and virtue, and possesses good repute and wealth — he is respected everywhere, in whatever land he travels.
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The good shine from afar, like the Himalaya mountains. But the wicked are unseen, like arrows shot in the night.
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He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.
“Pakinnakavagga: Miscellaneous” (Dhp XXI), translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.21.budd.html .
Pakinnakavagga: Miscellany
290
If, by forsaking
a limited ease,
he would see
an abundance of ease,
the enlightened man
would forsake
the limited ease
for the sake
of the abundant.
291
He wants his own ease
by giving others dis-ease.
Intertwined in the inter-
action of hostility,
from hostility
he’s not set free.
292-293
In those who
reject what should,
& do what shouldn’t be done
— heedless, insolent —
effluents grow.
But for those who
are well-applied, constantly,
to mindfulness immersed in the body;
don’t indulge
in what shouldn’t be done
& persist
in what should
— mindful, alert —
effluents come to an end.
294-295
Having killed mother & father,
two warrior kings,
the kingdom & its dependency —
the brahman, untroubled, travels on.
Having killed mother & father,
two learned kings,
&, fifth, a tiger —
the brahman, untroubled, travels on.
296-301
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose mindfulness, both day & night,
is constantly immersed
in the Buddha.
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose mindfulness, both day & night,
is constantly immersed
in the Dhamma.
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose mindfulness, both day & night,
is constantly immersed
in the Sangha.
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose mindfulness, both day & night,
is constantly immersed
in the body.
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose hearts delight, both day & night,
in harmlessness.
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples
whose hearts delight, both day & night,
in developing the mind.
302
Hard is the life gone forth,
hard to delight in.
Hard is the miserable
householder’s life.
It’s painful to stay with dissonant people,
painful to travel the road.
So be neither traveler
nor pained.
303
The man of conviction
endowed with virtue,
glory, & wealth:
wherever he goes
he is honored.
304
The good shine from afar
like the snowy Himalayas.
The bad don’t appear
even when near,
like arrows shot into the night.
305
Sitting alone,
resting alone,
walking alone,
untiring.
Taming himself,
he’d delight alone —
alone in the forest.
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