{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/16.htm","path":"bud/dhp/16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/16.htm","text":"209*:\nHaving applied himself\nto what was not his own task,\nand not having applied himself\nto what was,\nhaving disregarded the goal\nto grasp at what he held dear,\nhe now envies those\nwho kept after themselves,\ntook themselves\nto task.\n210-211:\nDon't ever -- regardless -- \nbe conjoined with what's dear\nor undear.\nIt's painful\nnot to see what's dear\nor to see what's not.\nSo don't make anything dear,\nfor it's dreadful to be far\nfrom what's dear.\nNo bonds are found\nfor those for whom\nthere's neither dear\nnor undear.\n212-216:\nFrom what's dear is born grief,\nfrom what's dear is born fear.\nFor one freed from what's dear\nthere's no grief\n-- so how fear?\nFrom what's loved is born grief,\nfrom what's loved is born fear.\nFor one freed from what's loved\nthere's no grief\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- so how fear?\nFrom delight is born grief,\nfrom delight is born fear.\nFor one freed from delight\nthere's no grief\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- so how fear?\nFrom sensuality is born grief,\nfrom sensuality is born fear.\nFor one freed from sensuality\nthere's no grief\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- so how fear?\nFrom craving is born grief,\nfrom craving is born fear.\nFor one freed from craving\nthere's no grief\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- so how fear?\n217:\nOne consummate in virtue & vision,\njudicious,\nspeaking the truth,\ndoing his own task:\nthe world holds him dear.\n218*:\nIf your heart has blossomed\n& given birth to a wish\nfor what can't be expressed,\nyour mind not enmeshed\nin sensual passions:\nyou're said to be\nin the up-flowing stream.\n219-220:\nA man long absent\ncomes home safe from afar.\nHis kin, his friends, his companions,\ndelight in his return.\nIn just the same way,\nwhen you've done good \n& gone from this world \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to the world beyond,\nyour good deeds receive you -- \nas kin, someone dear\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 come home.","title":"Dhammapada XVI: Dear Ones","type":"page"}