The Dhammapada Vol 03 ~ 03
event type | discourse |
date & time | 14 Aug 1979 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 52min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | DHAM0303 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Want nothing.
- Where there is desire,
- Say nothing.
- Happiness or sorrow --
- Whatever befalls you,
- Walk on
- Untouched, unattached.
- Do not ask for family or power or wealth,
- Either for yourself or for another.
- Can a wise man wish to rise unjustly?
- Few cross over the river.
- Most are stranded on this side.
- On the riverbank they run up and down.
- But the wise man, following the way,
- Crosses over, beyond the reach of death.
- He leaves the dark way
- For the way of the light.
- He leaves his home, seeking
- Happiness on the hard road.
- Free from desire,
- Free from possessions,
- Free from the dark places of the heart,
- Free from attachment and appetite,
- Following the seven lights of awakening,
- And rejoicing greatly in his freedom,
- In this world the wise man
- Becomes himself a light,
- Pure, shining, free.
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