Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand! |
Dark and bright are meant for bad and good. |
Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. |
Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. |
Difficult is the hearing of the True Law. |
Difficult is the life of mortals. |
Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world. |
Do not follow the evil law! |
Do not live on in thoughtlessness! |
Draw yourself out of the evil way, like an elephant sunk in mud. |
Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers. |
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days. |
Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little. |
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. |
Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet. |