The Dhammapada Vol 04 ~ 07
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 28 Aug 1979 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 53min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | DHAM0407 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- All beings tremble before violence.
- All fear death.
- All love life.
- See yourself in others.
- Then whom can you hurt?
- What harm can you do?
- He who seeks happiness
- By hurting those who seek happiness
- Will never find happiness.
- For your brother is like you.
- He wants to be happy.
- Never harm him
- And when you leave this life
- You too will find happiness.
- Never speak harsh words
- For they will rebound upon you.
- Angry words hurt
- And the hurt rebounds.
- Like a broken gong
- Be still, be silent.
- Know the stillness of freedom
- Where there is no more striving.
- Like herdsmen driving their cows into the fields
- Old age and death will drive you before them.
- But the fool in his mischief forgets
- And he lights the fire
- Wherein one day he must burn.
- He who harms the harmless
- Or hurts the innocent
- Ten times shall he fall --
- Into torment or infirmity,
- Injury or disease or madness,
- Persecution or fearful accusation,
- Loss of family, loss of fortune.
- Fire from heaven shall strike his house
- And when his body has been struck down
- He shall rise in hell.
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