{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/21.htm","path":"bud/dhp/21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/21.htm","text":"290:\nIf, by forsaking \na limited ease,\nhe would see\nan abundance of ease,\nthe enlightened man\nwould forsake\nthe limited ease\nfor the sake\nof the abundant.\n291:\nHe wants his own ease\nby giving others dis-ease.\nIntertwined in the inter-\naction of hostility,\nfrom hostility\nhe's not set free.\nIn those who\nreject what should,\n& do what shouldn't be done\n-- heedless, insolent --\neffluents grow.\nBut for those who\nare well-applied, constantly, \nto mindfulness immersed in the body;\ndon't indulge \nin what shouldn't be done\n& persist \nin what should\n-- mindful, alert -- \neffluents come to an end.\nHaving killed mother & father,\ntwo warrior kings,\nthe kingdom & its dependency --\nthe brahmin, untroubled, travels on.\nHaving killed mother & father,\ntwo learned kings,\n&, fifth, a tiger -- \nthe brahmin, untroubled, travels on.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\nGotama's disciples\nwhose mindfulness, both day & night,\nis constantly immersed\nin the Buddha.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotama's disciples\nwhose mindfulness, both day & night,\nis constantly immersed\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the Dhamma.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotama's disciples\nwhose mindfulness, both day & night,\nis constantly immersed\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the Sangha.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotama's disciples\nwhose mindfulness, both day & night,\nis constantly immersed\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the body.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotama's disciples\nwhose hearts delight, both day & night,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in harmlessness.\nThey awaken, always wide awake:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotama's disciples\nwhose hearts delight, both day & night,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in developing the mind.\n302:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hard \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is the life gone forth,\nhard to delight in.\nHard is the miserable\nhouseholder's life.\nIt's painful to stay with dissonant people,\npainful to travel the road.\nSo be neither traveler\nnor pained.\n303*:\nThe man of conviction\nendowed with virtue,\nglory, & wealth:\nwherever he goes\nhe is honored.\n304:\nThe good shine from afar\nlike the snowy Himalayas.\nThe bad don't appear\neven when near,\nlike arrows shot into the night.\n305:\nSitting alone,\nresting alone,\nwalking alone,\nuntiring.\nTaming himself,\nhe'd delight alone --\nalone in the forest.","title":"Dhammapada XXI: Miscellany","type":"page"}