{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/13.htm","path":"bud/dhp/13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/13.htm","text":"167:\nDon't associate with lowly qualities.\nDon't consort with heedlessness.\nDon't associate with wrong views.\nDon't busy yourself with the world.\n168-169:\nGet up! Don't be heedless.\nLive the Dhamma well.\nOne who lives the Dhamma\nsleeps with ease\nin this world & the next.\nLive the Dhamma well.\nDon't live it badly.\nOne who lives the Dhamma \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sleeps with ease\nin this world & the next.\n170*:\nSee it \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as a bubble,\nsee it as a mirage:\none who regards the world this way\nthe King of Death doesn't see.\n171:\nCome look at this world\nall decked out\nlike a royal chariot,\nwhere fools plunge in,\nwhile those who know\ndon't cling.\n172-173:\nWho once was heedless,\nbut later is not,\nbrightens the world\nlike the moon set free from a cloud.\nHis evil-done deed\nis replaced with skillfulness:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he brightens the world\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 like the moon set free from a cloud.\n174:\nBlinded this world -- \nhow few here see clearly!\nJust as birds who've escaped\nfrom a net are\nfew, few\nare the people\nwho make it to heaven.\n175:\nSwans fly the path of the sun;\nthose with the power fly through space;\nthe enlightened flee from the world,\nhaving defeated the armies of Mara.\n176*:\nThe person who tells a lie,\nwho transgresses in this one thing,\ntranscending concern for the world beyond:\nthere's no evil\nhe might not do.\n177:\nNo misers go\nto the world of the devas.\nThose who don't praise giving\nare fools.\nThe enlightened\nexpress their approval for giving\nand so find ease\nin the world beyond.\n178*:\nSole dominion over the earth,\ngoing to heaven,\nlordship over all worlds:\nthe fruit of Stream-entry\nexcels them.","title":"Dhammapada XIII: Worlds","type":"page"}