{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/wov/wov12.htm","path":"bud/wov/wov12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/wov/wov12.htm","text":"The Buddha's Way of Virtue, by W.D.C Wagiswara and K.J. Saunders, [1920]\n100. Better than a thousand empty words is one pregnant word, which brings the hearer peace.\n101. Better than a thousand idle songs is a single song, which brings the hearer peace.\n102. Better it is to chant one verse of the law, that brings the hearer peace, than to chant a hundred empty songs.\n103. If one were to conquer a thousand thousand in the battle\u2014he who conquers self is the greatest warrior.\n104, 105. Self-conquest is better than other victories: neither god nor demi-god, neither Mara nor Brahma, can undo the victory of such a one, who is self-controlled and always calm.\n106. If month by month throughout a hundred years one were to offer sacrifices costing thousands, and if for a moment another were to reverence the self-controlled\u2014this is the better worship.\n107. If one for a hundred years tended the\nsacred fire in the glade, and another for a moment reverenced the self-controlled, this is the better worship.\n108. Whatsoever sacrifice or offering a man makes for a full year in hope of benefits, all is not worth a quarter of that better offering\u2014reverence to the upright.\n109. In him who is trained in constant courtesy and reverence to the old, four qualities increase: length of days, beauty, gladness, and strength.\n110. Better than a hundred years of impure and intemperate existence is a single day of moral, contemplative life.\n111. Better is one day of wise and contemplative life than a thousand years of folly and intemperance.\n112. Better one day of earnest energy than a hundred years of sloth and lassitude.\n113. Better one day of insight into the fleeting nature of the things of sense, than a hundred years of blindness to this transiency.\n114. Better one day of insight into the deathless state (Nirv\u0101na), than a hundred years of blindness to this immortality.\n115. Better one day of insight into the Supreme Law, than a hundred years of blindness to that Law.","title":"The Buddha's Way of Virtue: \u00a7 VIII: The Thousands","type":"page"}