The Dhammapada Vol 04 ~ 09
event type | discourse |
date & time | 30 Aug 1979 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | DHAM0409 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- He who goes naked,
- With matted hair, mud-bespattered,
- Who fasts and sleeps on the ground
- And smears his body with ashes
- And sits in endless meditation --
- So long as he is not free from doubts,
- He will not find freedom.
- But he who lives purely and self-assured
- In quietness and virtue,
- Who is without harm or hurt or blame,
- Even if he wears fine clothes,
- So long as he also has faith
- He is a true seeker.
- A noble horse rarely
- Feels the touch of the whip.
- Who is there in this world as blameless?
- Then like a noble horse
- Smart under the whip,
- Burn and be swift.
- Believe, meditate, see.
- Be harmless, be blameless.
- Awake to the law.
- And from all sorrow free yourself.
- The farmer channels water to his land.
- The fletcher whittles his arrows.
- The carpenter turns his wood.
- And the wise man masters himself.
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