{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/26.htm","path":"bud/dhp/26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/26.htm","text":"383*:\nHaving striven, brahmin,\ncut the stream.\nExpel sensual passions.\nKnowing the ending of fabrications,\nbrahmin,\nyou know the Unmade.\n384*:\nWhen the brahmin has gone\nto the beyond of two things,\nthen all his fetters\ngo to their end --\nhe who knows.\n385*:\nOne whose beyond or\nnot-beyond or\nbeyond-&-not-beyond\ncan't be found;\nunshackled, carefree:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n386:\nSitting silent, dustless, \nabsorbed in jhana,\nhis task done, effluents gone,\nultimate goal attained:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n387:\nBy day shines the sun;\nby night, the moon;\nin armor, the warrior;\nin jhana, the brahmin.\nBut all day & all night,\nevery day & every night,\nthe Awakened One shines\nin splendor.\n388*:\nHe's called a brahmin\nfor having banished his evil,\na contemplative\nfor living in consonance,\none gone forth\nfor having forsaken\nhis own impurities.\n389*:\nOne should not strike a brahmin,\nnor should the brahmin\nlet loose with his anger.\nShame on a brahmin's killer.\nMore shame on the brahmin\nwhose anger's let loose.\n390*:\nNothing's better for the brahmin\nthan when the mind is held back\nfrom what is endearing & not.\nHowever his harmful-heartedness\nwears away,\nthat's how stress\nsimply comes to rest.\n391:\nWhoever does no wrong\nin body,\nspeech,\nheart,\nis restrained in these three ways:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n392*:\nThe person from whom\nyou would learn the Dhamma\ntaught by the Rightly\nSelf-Awakened One:\nyou should honor him with respect --\nas a brahmin, the flame for a sacrifice.\nNot by matted hair,\nby clan, or by birth,\nis one a brahmin.\nWhoever has truth\n& rectitude:\nhe is a pure one,\nhe, a brahmin.\nWhat's the use of your matted hair,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 you dullard?\nWhat's the use of your deerskin cloak?\nThe tangle's inside you.\nYou comb the outside.\n395:\nWearing cast-off rags\n-- his body lean & lined with veins --\nabsorbed in jhana,\nalone in the forest:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n396*:\nI don't call one a brahmin\nfor being born of a mother\nor sprung from a womb.\nHe's called a 'bho-sayer'\nif he has anything at all.\nBut someone with nothing,\nwho clings to no thing:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n397:\nHaving cut every fetter,\nhe doesn't get ruffled.\nBeyond attachment,\nunshackled:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n398*:\nHaving cut the strap & thong,\ncord & bridle,\nhaving thrown off the bar,\nawakened:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n399:\nHe endures -- unangered -- \ninsult, assault, & imprisonment.\nHis army is strength;\nhis strength, forbearance:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n400*:\nFree from anger,\nduties observed,\nprincipled, with no overbearing pride,\ntrained, a 'last-body':\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n401:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like water \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on a lotus leaf,\na mustard seed on the tip of an awl,\nhe doesn't adhere to sensual pleasures:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n402*:\nHe discerns right here, \nfor himself,\non his own,\nhis own\nending of stress.\nUnshackled, his burden laid down:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n403:\nWise, profound\nin discernment, astute\nas to what is the path\n& what's not;\nhis ultimate goal attained:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n404:\nUncontaminated \nby householders\n& houseless ones alike;\nliving with no home,\nwith next to no wants:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n405:\nHaving put aside violence\nagainst beings fearful or firm,\nhe neither kills nor\ngets others to kill:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n406:\nUnopposing among opposition,\nunbound among the armed,\nunclinging among those who cling:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n407:\nHis passion, aversion,\nconceit, & contempt,\nhave fallen away --\nlike a mustard seed\nfrom the tip of an awl:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n408:\nHe would say \nwhat's non-grating,\ninstructive,\ntrue --\nabusing no one:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n409:\nHere in the world\nhe takes nothing not-given\n-- long, short,\nlarge, small,\nattractive, not:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n410:\nHis longing for this\n& for the next world\ncan't be found;\nfree from longing, unshackled:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n411*:\nHis attachments,\nhis homes,\ncan't be found.\nThrough knowing\nhe is unperplexed,\nhas attained the plunge\ninto Deathlessness:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n412*:\nHe has gone \nbeyond attachment here\nfor both merit & evil --\nsorrowless, dustless, & pure:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n413:\nSpotless, pure, like the moon\n-- limpid & calm --\nhis delights, his becomings,\ntotally gone:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n414:\nHe has made his way past\nthis hard-going path\n-- samsara, delusion --\nhas crossed over,\nhas gone beyond,\nis free from want,\nfrom perplexity,\nabsorbed in jhana,\nthrough no-clinging\nUnbound:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n415-416:\nWhoever, abandoning sensual passions here,\nwould go forth from home --\nhis sensual passions, becomings,\ntotally gone:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\nWhoever, abandoning craving here,\nwould go forth from home -- \nhis cravings, becomings,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 totally gone:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he's what I call\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a brahmin.\n417:\nHaving left behind\nthe human bond,\nhaving made his way past\nthe divine,\nfrom all bonds unshackled:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n418 :\nHaving left behind\ndelight & displeasure,\ncooled, with no acquisitions --\na hero who has conquered\nall the world,\nevery world:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n419:\nHe knows in every way\nbeings' passing away,\nand their re-\narising;\nunattached, awakened,\nwell-gone:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n420:\nHe whose course they don't know\n-- devas, gandhabbas, & human beings --\nhis effluents ended, an arahant:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n421*:\nHe who has nothing\n-- in front, behind, in between --\nthe one with nothing\nwho clings to no thing:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n422:\nA splendid bull, conqueror,\nhero, great seer --\nfree from want,\nawakened, washed:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.\n423*:\nHe knows \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his former lives.\nHe sees heavens & states of woe,\nhas attained the ending of birth,\nis a sage who has mastered full-knowing,\nhis mastery totally mastered:\nhe's what I call\na brahmin.","title":"Dhammapada XXVI: Brahmins","type":"page"}