{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/12.htm","path":"bud/dhp/12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/12.htm","text":"157*:\nIf you hold yourself dear\nthen guard, guard yourself well.\nThe wise person would stay awake\nnursing himself\nin any of the three watches of the night,\nthe three stages of life.\n158:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First\nhe'd settle himself\nin what is correct,\nonly then\nteach others.\nHe wouldn't stain his name\n: he is wise.\n159:\nIf you'd mold yourself\nthe way you teach others,\nthen, well-trained,\ngo ahead & tame --\nfor, as they say,\nwhat's hard to tame is you\nyourself.\n160:\nYour own self is\nyour own mainstay,\nfor who else could your mainstay be?\nWith you yourself well-trained\nyou obtain the mainstay\nhard to obtain.\n161:\nThe evil he himself has done\n-- self-born, self-created --\ngrinds down the dullard,\nas a diamond, a precious stone.\n162*:\nWhen overspread by extreme vice -- \nlike a sal tree by a vine --\nyou do to yourself\nwhat an enemy would wish.\n163:\nThey're easy to do -- \nthings of no good\n& no use to yourself.\nWhat's truly useful & good\nis truly harder than hard to do.\n164*:\nThe teaching of those who live the Dhamma,\nworthy ones, noble:\nwhoever maligns it\n-- a dullard,\ninspired by evil view --\nbears fruit for his own destruction,\nlike the fruiting of the bamboo.\n165*:\nEvil is done \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by oneself\nby oneself is one defiled.\nEvil is left undone by oneself\nby oneself is one cleansed.\nPurity & impurity are one's own doing.\nNo one purifies another.\nNo other purifies one.\n166*:\nDon't sacrifice your own welfare\nfor that of another,\nno matter how great.\nRealizing your own true welfare,\nbe intent on just that.","title":"Dhammapada X: The Rod","type":"page"}