Everything burns, i.e. everything suffers, was one of the first experiences of Buddha himself. |
Few are there among men who arrive at the other shore ; the other people here run up and down the shore. |
Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! |
Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. |
For an evil act committed in the world does not bear fruit at once, like a cow. |
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. |
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse. |
Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures. |
From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear. |
Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night. |
Good people walk on whatever befall, the good do not prattle, longing for pleasure. |
Happy is the arising of the awakened. |
He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? |
He in whom a desire for the Ineffable has sprung up, who is satisfied in his mind, and whose thoughts are not bewildered by love, he is carried upwards by the stream. |
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. |