{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/9.htm","path":"bud/dhp/9.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/dhp/9.htm","text":"116:\nBe quick in doing \nwhat's admirable.\nRestrain your mind\nfrom what's evil.\nWhen you're slow\nin making merit,\nevil delights the mind.\n117-118:\nIf a person does evil,\nhe shouldn't do it again & again,\nshouldn't develop a penchant for it.\nTo accumulate evil\nbrings pain.\nIf a person makes merit,\nhe should do it again & again,\nshould develop a penchant for it.\nTo accumulate merit\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 brings ease.\n119-120:\nEven the evil \nmeet with good fortune\nas long as their evil\nhas yet to mature.\nBut when it's matured\nthat's when they meet\nwith evil.\nEven the good \nmeet with bad fortune\nas long as their good\nhas yet to mature.\nBut when it's matured\nthat's when they meet \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with good fortune.\nDon't be heedless of evil\n('It won't come to me').\nA water jar fills,\neven with water\nfalling in drops.\nWith evil -- even if\nbit\nby\nbit,\nhabitually --\nthe fool fills himself full.\nDon't be heedless of merit\n('It won't come to me').\nA water jar fills,\neven with water\nfalling \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 drops.\nWith merit -- even if\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bit\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bit,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 habitually -- \nthe enlightened one fills himself full.\n123:\nLike a merchant with a small\nbut well-laden caravan\n-- a dangerous road,\nlike a person who loves life\n-- a poison,\none should avoid\n-- evil deeds.\n124:\nIf there's no wound on the hand,\nthat hand can hold poison.\nPoison won't penetrate\nwhere there's no wound.\nThere's no evil\nfor those who don't do it.\n125:\nWhoever harasses\nan innocent man,\na man pure, without blemish:\nthe evil comes right back to the fool\nlike fine dust\nthrown against the wind.\n126*:\nSome are born \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the human womb,\nevildoers in hell,\nthose on the good course go\nto heaven,\nwhile those without effluent:\ntotally unbound.\n127-128:\nNot up in the air,\nnor in the middle of the sea,\nnor going into a cleft in the mountains\n-- nowhere on earth --\nis a spot to be found\nwhere you could stay & escape\nyour evil deed.\nNot up in the air,\nnor in the middle of the sea,\nnor going into a cleft in the mountains\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- nowhere on earth -- \nis a spot to be found\nwhere you could stay & not succumb\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to death.","title":"Dhammapada IX: Evil","type":"page"}