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Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who
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Chapter XIV
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Dhammapada
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple
who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires
Even an evil-doer sees happiness as long as his evil
Even the gods envy those who are awakened and not
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Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his
Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village ...
Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose
Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures ...
Difficult (to obtain) is the conception of men, difficult is
Difficult (to obtain) is the conception of men, difficult is the life of mortals, difficult is the hearing of the True Law, difficult is the birth of the Awakened (the attainment of Buddhahood) ...
Discovery Of The Zend-avesta
The "Zend-Avesta" is the sacred book of the Parsis; that is to say, of the few remaining followers of that religion which reigned over Persia at the time when the second successor of Mohammed overthrew the Sassanian dynasty (A.D. 642), and which h...
Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on
Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world ...
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men ...
Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken
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 ...
Doing Our Best at All Times
Life is a wondrously complex problem for the individual, until, some day, in a moment of illumination, he awakens to the great realization that he can make it simple,--never quite simple, but always simpler. There are a thousand mysteries of rig...
Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man
Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack ...
Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of
Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already ...
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days ...
Even an evil-doer sees happiness as long as his evil
Even an evil-doer sees happiness as long as his evil deed has not ripened; but when his evil deed has ripened, then does the evil-doer see evil ...
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires ...
Even the gods envy those who are awakened and not
Even the gods envy those who are awakened and not forgetful, who are given to meditation, who are wise, and who delight in the repose of retirement (from the world) ...
Even though a Gatha (poem) be a thousand (of words),
Even though a Gatha (poem) be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of a Gatha is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet ...
Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but
Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet ...
Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes
Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice ...
EXPECTATION IN ADJUSTMENT IS ASSUMPTION
The world no longer merely ASKS for truth; it harmonizes with Nature and Life, and so, APPROPRIATES The World's New Dawn You are invited to make this thought a lifelong affirmation: IN ...
Failure as a Success
It ofttimes requires heroic courage to face fruitless effort, to take up the broken strands of a life-work, to look bravely toward the future, and proceed undaunted on our way. But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the da...
FALSE THOUGHT--SELFISHNESS--FEAR
And when fear vanishes, replaced by the WHITE LIFE, selfishness will die as impossible, and thought will no longer be false for the reason that only truth will be possessed If the whole world, then, would but thrust out fear and receive th...
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind) ...
FEAR AND REASON
"In civilized life it has at last become possible for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear Many of us need an attack of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word"--Wi...
FEAR-THOUGHT AND FEAR-FEELING
The INTELLECT coldly reflects What Is: An icy, crystalline lake portraying earth and sky In shadows beautiful as death-- And void of pulse, or warmth, or music of good life This is no Eye with which to view the world! The SOUL reflects ...
Few are there among men who arrive at the other
Few are there among men who arrive at the other shore (become Arhats); the other people here run up and down the shore ...