{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn2.22/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn2.22","id":"suttacentral_sn2.22","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.22/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Standing to one side, the godling Khema recited these verses in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cFools and simpletons behave like their own worst enemies, doing wicked deeds that ripen as bitter fruit. It\u2019s not good to do a deed that plagues you later on, for which you weep and wail, as its effect stays with you. It is good to do a deed that doesn\u2019t plague you later on, that gladdens and cheers, as its effect stays with you.\u201d \u201cAs a precaution, you should do what you know is for your own welfare. A thinker, an attentive one would not proceed thinking like the cart driver. Suppose a cart driver leaves the highway, so even and well compacted. They enter upon a rough road, and fret as soon as their axle is broken. So too, a dullard leaves the good to follow what\u2019s against the good. Fallen in the jaws of death, they fret like one whose axle is broken.\u201d","title":"With Khema","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":159}