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The Dhammapada
Chapter Ten -- Violence
All tremble at
violence
,
all fear death
.
Putting oneself in the place of another
, one should
not kill nor cause another to kill.
All tremble at violence,
life is dear to all
.
Putting oneself in the place of another, one should
not kill nor cause another to kill.
One who, while oneself seeking happiness,
oppress
es with violence other beings who also
desire happiness
, will not attain happiness hereafter.
One who, while oneself seeking happiness,
does not oppress with
violence
other beings who
also desire happiness, will find happiness hereafter.
Speak not harshly to anyone; for those
thus spoken to might retort. Indeed, angry
speech hurts, and retaliation may overtake you.
If, like a broken gong, you silence yourself,
you have approached
Nibbana
, for
vindictiveness
is no more in you.
Just as a
cowherd
drives the
cattle
to
pasture with a staff, so do
old age
and
death
drive the
life force
of beings (from existence
to existence).
When fools commit
evil deeds
, they
do not realize (their evil nature).
Witless
persons are tormented by their own deeds, like one
burnt by fire.
Those who use violence against those who
are unarmed, and offend those who are inoffensive,
will soon come upon one of these ten states:
Sharp pain
, or
disaster
, bodily
injury
,
serious illness
, or
derangement of mind
,
trouble from the government
, or
grave charges
,
loss of relatives
, or
loss of wealth
,
houses destroyed
by a ravaging fire, and upon dissolution of
the body those ignorant persons will be born in hell.
Neither going about
naked
, nor
mat
ted
locks
, nor
filth
, nor
fasting
, nor
lying
on the
ground, nor smearing oneself with ashes and
dust, nor sitting on the heels (in penance) can
purify a mortal who has not overcome mental wavering.
Even though one be well-adorned, yet if
one is
poised
,
calm
,
controlled
and
established
in the holy life, having laid aside violence towards
all beings--one, truly, is a
holy person
, a
renunciate
.
Only rarely is there a person in this world
who, restrained by
modesty
, avoids
reproach
, as
a
thoroughbred
horse the
whip
.
Like a
thoroughbred
horse touched by
the
whip
, be
strenuous
, be filled with spiritual
yearning
. By faith and moral purity, by effort
and meditation, by investigation of the truth, by
being rich in knowledge and virtue, and by being
mindful, destroy this unlimited suffering.
Irrigator
s regulate the waters;
fletcher
s
straighten arrow shafts;
carpenter
s shape wood;
and
the good control themselves
.
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