{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/thag/thag14.htm","path":"bud/thag/thag14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/thag/thag14.htm","text":"Note: Unless otherwise indicated, these suttas were translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.\nSince I went forth\nfrom home into homelessness,\nI haven't known\nan ignoble, aversive resolve.\n\"May these beings\nbe destroyed,\nbe slaughtered,\nfall into pain\" --\nI've not known this resolve\nin this long, long time.\nBut I have known good will,\nunlimited,\nfully developed,\nnurtured step after step,\nas taught by the One\nAwake:\nto all, a friend;\nto all, a comrade;\nfor all beings, sympathetic.\nAnd I develop a mind of good will,\ndelighting in non-malevolence -- always.\nUnvanquished, unshaken,\nI gladden the mind.\nI develop the sublime abiding,\nnot frequented by\nthe lowly.\nAttaining no-thinking,\nthe disciple of the Rightly\nSelf-awakened One\nis endowed with noble silence\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 straightaway.\nAs a mountain of rock\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is unmoving,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 firmly established,\nso a monk, with the ending of delusion,\nlike a mountain, doesn't quake.\nTo a person without blemish,\nconstantly in search of what's pure,\na hair-tip of evil\nseems a storm cloud.\nAs a frontier fortress is guarded\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 within & without,\nyou should safeguard yourselves.\nDon't let the moment\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pass you by.\nI don't delight in death,\ndon't delight in living.\nI await my time\nlike a worker his wage.\nI don't delight in death,\ndon't delight in living.\nI await my time\nmindful, alert.\nThe Teacher has been served by me;\nthe Awakened One's bidding,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 done;\nthe heavy load, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 laid down;\nthe guide to becoming, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 uprooted.\nAnd the goal for which I went forth\nfrom home life into homelessness\nI've reached:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the end\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of all fetters.\nAttain completion through heedfulness:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that is my message.\nSo then, I'm about to be\nUnbound.\nI'm released\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 everywhere.\nJust as a fine, well-bred bull\nyoked to a load,\nenduring his load,\ncrushed\nby the heavy burden,\ndoesn't throw down his yoke;\nso, too, those who are filled with discernment\n-- as the ocean, with water --\ndon't look down on others.\nThis is nobility among beings.\nHaving fallen in time\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 under the sway of time,\nhaving come under the sway\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of becoming-becoming,\npeople fall subject to pain\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 & they grieve.\nElated by the causes of pleasure,\n& cast down by causes of pain,\nfools are destroyed by both,\nnot seeing them for what they are.\nWhile those who, in the midst of\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pleasure & pain\nhave gone past the seamstress of craving,\nstand firm\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 like a boundary pillar,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 neither elated nor cast down.\nNot to gain or loss\nnot to status or honor,\nnot to praise or blame,\nnot to pleasure or pain:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 everywhere\nthey do not adhere -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 like a water bead\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on a lotus.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Everywhere\nthey are happy, the enlightened,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 everywhere\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 un-\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 defeated.\nNo matter what\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the unrighteous gain\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or the righteous loss,\nrighteous loss is better\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 than if there were unrighteous gain.\nNo matter what\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the status of the unaware\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or the lowliness of those who know,\nthe lowliness of those who know\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is better,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 not the status of those\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unaware.\nNo matter what\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the praise from fools\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or the censure from those who know,\nthe censure from those who know\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is better\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 than if there were praise\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from fools.\nAnd as for the pleasure\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from sensuality\nand the pain from seclusion,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the pain from seclusion\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is better\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 than if there were pleasure\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from sensuality.\nAnd as for living through unrighteousness\nand dying for righteousness,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dying for righteousness\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is better,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 than if one were to live\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 through unrighteousness.\nThose who've abandoned\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sensuality & anger,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 whose minds are calmed\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from becoming & non-,\ngo through the world\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unattached.\nFor them there is nothing\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dear or undear.\nDeveloping\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the factors of Awakening,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 faculties,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 & strengths,\nattaining the foremost peace,\nwithout fermentation, they\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are entirely\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unbound.","title":"Theragatha XIV","type":"page"}