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 [...]
Dharma Talks: Words Can Inspire And They Can Hinder Practice (Part II)
Posted in Conze, Diamond Sutra, Disciples of the Buddha, Korean Buddhism, Life of Buddha, Practice, Pāli Canon, Zen on May 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Talks can be inspiring. Words can instruct, urge, encourage, and rouse. Making a concept precise that was once imprecise can be the difference between wrong view and right view. Surely this is all part of practicing the Buddhadharma. So there is room for analytical thinking, analytical discourse, and analytical practice in all of this. In [...]
Dharma Talks: What Are They Good For? (Part I)
Posted in Diamond Sutra, Life of Buddha, Practice, Pāli Canon, Zen on May 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Depending on your practice tradition, you probably have encountered a Dharma talk. Maybe during retreat, maybe during a public meditation session or talk on Buddhism, maybe in the kitchen while cleaning up after lunch. What are these Dharma talks good for? How should we approach them, listen to them, feel them? How should someone giving [...]
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. [...]
