Version 1 Like a water creature Plucked from its watery home and thrown on land, This mind flaps; [Fit] to discard [is] Mara’s sway. Version 2 Like a fish pulled from its home in the water & thrown on land: this mind flips & flaps about to escape Mara’s sway. Version 3 As a fish [...]
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Dhammapada, Stanza 34
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dhammapada, Stanza 33
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Version 1: The quivering, wavering mind, Hard to guard, hard to check, The sagacious one makes straight, Like a fletcher, an arrow shaft. Version 2: Quivering, wavering, hard to guard, to hold in check: the mind. The sage makes it straight — like a fletcher, the shaft of an arrow. Version 3: Just as a [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 32
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Version 1: The bhikkhu [or bhikkhuni] who delights in awareness, Who sees in unawareness the fearful – He [or she] is not liable to suffer fall; In Nibbana’s presence is such a one. Version 2: The monk [or nun] delighting in heedfulness, seeing danger in heedlessness — incapable of falling back — stands right on [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 31
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on April 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Version 1: The bhikkhu [or bhikkhuni] who delights in awareness, Who sees in unawareness the fearful, Goes, burning, like a fire, The fetter subtle and gross. Version 2: The monk [or nun] delighting in heedfulness, seeing danger in heedlessness, advances like a fire, burning fetters great & small. Version 3: The monk [or nun] who [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 30
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Version 1: By awareness, Maghavan To supremacy among the gods arose. Awareness they praise; Always censured is unawareness. Version 2: Through heedfulness, Indra won to lordship over the gods. Heedfulness is praised, heedlessness censured — always. Version 3: By Heedfulness did Indra become the overlord of the gods. Heedfulness is ever praised, and heedlessness ever [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 29
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Version 1: Among those unaware, the one aware, Among the sleepers, the wide-awake, The one with great wisdom moves on, As a racehorse who leaves behind a nag. Version 2: Heedful among the heedless, wakeful among those asleep, just as a fast horse advances, leaving the weak behind: so the wise. Version 3: Heedful among [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 28
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Version 1: When the wise one by awareness expels unawareness, Having ascended the palace of wisdom, [That one], free from sorrow, steadfast, The sorrowing folk observes, the childish, As one standing on a mountain Observes those standing on the ground below. Version 2: When the wise person[s] drive out heedlessness with heedfulness, having climbed the [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 27
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Version 1: Engage not in unawareness Nor in intimacy with sensual delight. Meditating, the one who is aware Attains extensive ease. Version 2: Don’t give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight — for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. Version 3: Do not give way to heedlessness. [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 26
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Version 1: People deficient in wisdom, childish ones, Engage in unawareness. But the wise one guards awareness Like the greatest treasure. Version 2: They’re addicted to heedlessness — dullards, fools — while one who is wise cherishes heedfulness as his highest wealth. Version 3: The foolish and ignorant indulge in heedlessness, but the wise one[s] [...]
Dhammapada, Stanza 25
Posted in Dhammapada, Pāli Canon on February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Version 1: By standing alert, by awareness, By restraint and control too, The intelligent one could make an island That a flood does not overwhelm. Version 2: Through initiative, heedfulness, restraint, & self-control, the wise would make an island no flood can submerge. Version 3: By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise [...]
