After happiness comes suffering. After suffering arises happiness. For beings happiness and suffering Revolve like a wheel. |
If you desire ease, forsake learning. |
Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise. |
No existents whatsoever are evident anywhere that are arisen from themselves, from another, from both, or from a non-cause. |
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts |
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. |
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. |
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves |