{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag8.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag8.1","id":"suttacentral_thag8.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag8.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Don\u2019t get involved in lots of work, avoid people, and don\u2019t try to acquire things. If you\u2019re eager and greedy for flavors, you\u2019ll miss the goal that brings such happiness. They know it really is a bog, this homage and veneration in respectable families. Honor is a subtle dart, hard to extract, and hard for a reprobate to give up. The deeds of a mortal aren\u2019t bad because of what others do. You yourself should not do bad, for mortals have deeds as their kin. You\u2019re not a bandit because of what someone says, you\u2019re not a sage because of what someone says; but as you know yourself, so the gods will know you. When others do not understand, let us, who do understand this, restrain ourselves in this regard; for that is how conflicts are laid to rest. A wise person lives on even after loss of wealth; but without gaining wisdom, even a rich person doesn\u2019t really live. All is heard with the ear, all is seen with the eye; the attentive ought not discard all that is seen and heard. Though you have eyes, be as if blind; though you have ears, be as if deaf; though you have wisdom, be as if dumb; though you have strength, be as if feeble. And when issues come up lie as still as a corpse.","title":"Mah\u0101kacc\u0101na","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":226}