The Dhammapada Vol 10 ~ 03
event type | discourse |
date & time | 23 Feb 1980 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | DHAM1003 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- It is not iron that imprisons you
- Nor rope nor wood,
- But the pleasure you take in gold and jewels,
- In sons and wives.
- Soft fetters,
- Yet they hold you down.
- Can you snap them?
- There are those who can,
- Who surrender the world,
- Forsake desire, and follow the way.
- O slave of desire,
- Float upon the stream.
- Little spider, stick to your web.
- Or else abandon your sorrows for the way.
- Abandon yesterday, and tomorrow,
- And today.
- Cross over to the farther shore,
- Beyond life and death.
- Do your thoughts trouble you?
- Does passion disturb you?
- Beware of thirstiness
- Lest your wishes become desires
- And desire binds you.
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