Dhammapada - The Essential Teaching of The Buddha

Chapter XVII

ANGER

222 He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.

226 Those who are ever watchful, who study day and night, and who strive after Nirvana, their passions will come to an end.

227 This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not as if of to-day: 'They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not blamed.' 

 228 There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.

231 Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body! Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!

 232 Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue! Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue whit thy tongue!

 233 Beware of the anger of the mind, and control thy mind! Leave the sins of the mind, and practise virtue whit thy mind!

 234 The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Chapter XVIII

IMPURITY

 239 Let a wise man blow off the impurities of himself, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from time to time.

243 But there is a taint worse than all taints, - ignorance is the greatest taint. O mendicants! throw of that taint, and become taintless! 

245 But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quite, spotless, and intelligent.

247 And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.

251 There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

253 If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to be offended, his own passions will grow, and he is far from destruction of passions.

155 There is no path through the air, a man is not a Samana outwardly. No creatures are eternal; but the awakened (Buddha) are never shaken.

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Dhammapada - The Essential Teaching of The Buddha

Chapter VII

THE VENERABLE

(ARHAT)

96 His thought is quiet, quiet are his words and deed, when he has freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

99 Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the passionless will find delight, for they look for no pleasures. 

Chapter VIII

THE THOUSANDS

103 If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

Chapter IX

THE DEVIL

 120 Even a good man sees evil days so long as his good deed does not ripen; but when his good deed ripens, then does the good man see good things.

Chapter XIV

THE BUDDHA

(THE AWAKENED)

182 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). 

185 Not to blame, not to strike, to live restrained under the law, to be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone, and to dwell on the highest thoughts,-this is the teaching of the Awakened.

188 Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to grows and sacred trees.

189 But that is not a safe refuge, that is not the best refuge; a man is not delivered from all pains after having gone to that refuge. 

190 He who takes refuge with Buddha, the Law, and the Church; he who, with clear understanding , sees the four holy truths:-

Chapter XV

HAPPINESS

204 Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.