Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no hold! |
Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage. |
Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. |
Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise! |
Making oneself a likeness, i.e. putting oneself in the position of other people, it is right to love none but one's own wife. |
Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evil-doers by their evil deeds go to hell. |
May both the layman and he who has left the world think that this is done by me; may they be subject to me in everything which is to be done or is not to be done, thus is the mind of the fool, and his desire and pride increase. |
Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to groves and sacred trees. |
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again. |
Mind is the leader or all its faculties. |
Not a moment should escape, for they who allow the right moment to pass, suffer pain when they are in hell. |
Not a mother, not a father will do so much, nor any other relative; a well-directed mind will do us greater service. |
Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where death could not overcome (the mortal). |
Not to blame, not to strike, to live restrained under the law, to be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone, and to dwell on the highest thoughts,this is the teaching of the Awakened. |
Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of (all) the Awakened. |