{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/wov/wov23.htm","path":"bud/wov/wov23.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/wov/wov23.htm","text":"The Buddha's Way of Virtue, by W.D.C Wagiswara and K.J. Saunders, [1920]\n256, 257. Hasty judgment shows no man just. He is called just who discriminates between right and wrong, who judges others not hastily, but with righteous and calm judgment, a wise guardian of the law.\n258. Neither is a man wise by much speaking: he is called wise who is forgiving, kindly, and fearless.\n259. A man is not a pillar of the law for his much speaking: he who has heard only part of the law and keeps it indeed, he is a pillar of the law and does not slight it.\n260. No man is made an \"elder\" by his grey locks; mere old age is called empty old age.\n261. He is called \"elder\" in whom dwell truth and righteousness, harmlessness and self-control and self-mastery, who is without taint and wise.\n262. Not by mere eloquence or comeliness is a man a \"gentleman,\" who is lustful, a miser, and a knave.\n263. But he in whom these faults are uprooted and done away, the wise and pure is called a gentleman.\n264. Not by his shaven crown is one made a \"religious\" who is intemperate and dishonourable. How can he be a \"religious\" who is full of lust and greed?\n265. He who puts off entirely great sins and small faults\u2014by such true religion is a man called \"religious.\"\n266. Not merely by the mendicant life is a man known as a mendicant: he is not a mendicant because he follows the law of the flesh;\n267. But because, being above good and evil, he leads a pure life and goes circumspectly.\n268, 269. Not by silence (mona) is a man a sage (muni) if he be ignorant and foolish: he who holds as it were the balance, taking the good and rejecting the bad, he is the sage: he who is sage for both worlds, he is the true sage.\n270. A man is no warrior who worries living things: by not worrying is a man called warrior.\n271, 272. Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning, nor by meditation nor by solitude have I won to that peace which no worldling knows. Rest not content with these, O Bhikkhus, until you have reached the destruction of all taints.","title":"The Buddha's Way of Virtue: \u00a7 XIX: The Righteous","type":"page"}