{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/10.htm","path":"bud/dhp/10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/10.htm","text":"129-130:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All \ntremble at the rod,\nall\nare fearful of death.\nDrawing the parallel to\nyourself,\nneither kill nor get others to kill.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All \ntremble at the rod,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 all\nhold their life dear.\nDrawing the parallel to \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 yourself,\nneither kill nor get others to kill.\n131-132:\nWhoever takes a rod\nto harm living beings desiring ease,\nwhen he himself is looking for ease,\nwill meet with no ease after death.\nWhoever doesn't take a rod\nto harm living beings desiring ease,\nwhen he himself is looking for ease,\nwill meet with ease after death.\n133-134:\nSpeak harshly to no one, \nor the words will be thrown\nright back at you.\nContentious talk is painful,\nfor you get struck by rods in return.\nIf, like a flattened metal pot\nyou don't resound,\nyou've attained an Unbinding;\nin you there's found\nno contention.\n135:\nAs a cowherd with a rod \ndrives cows to the field,\nso aging & death\ndrive the life\nof living beings.\n136:\nWhen doing evil deeds,\nthe fool is oblivious.\nThe dullard\nis tormented\nby his own deeds,\nas if burned by a fire.\n137-140:\nWhoever, with a rod, \nharasses an innocent man, unarmed,\nquickly falls into any of ten things:\nharsh pains, devastation, a broken body, grave illness,\nmental derangement, trouble with the government,\nviolent slander, relatives lost, property dissolved,\nhouses burned down.\nAt the break-up of the body\nthis one with no discernment,\nreappears in\nhell.\n141-142:\nNeither nakedness nor matted hair\nnor mud nor the refusal of food\nnor sleeping on the bare ground\nnor dust & dirt nor squatting austerities\ncleanses the mortal\nwho's not gone beyond doubt.\nIf, though adorned, one lives in tune\nwith the chaste life\n-- calmed, tamed, & assured --\nhaving put down the rod toward all beings,\nhe's a contemplative\na brahmin\na monk.\n143*:\nWho in the world\nis a man constrained by conscience,\nwho awakens to censure\nlike a fine stallion to the whip?\n144:\nLike a fine stallion\nstruck with a whip,\nbe ardent & chastened.\nThrough conviction\nvirtue, persistence,\nconcentration, judgment,\nconsummate in knowledge & conduct,\nmindful,\nyou'll abandon this not-insignificant pain.\n145:\nIrrigators guide \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the water.\nFletchers shape the arrow shaft.\nCarpenters shape the wood.\nThose of good practices control\nthemselves.","title":"Dhammapada X: The Rod","type":"page"}