The Dhammapada Vol 02 ~ 03
event type | discourse |
date & time | 3 Jul 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 | DHAM0203 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Who shall conquer this world
- And the world of death with all its gods?
- Who shall discover
- The shining way of the law?
- You shall, even as the man
- Who seeks flowers
- Finds the most beautiful,
- The rarest.
- Understand that the body
- Is merely the foam of a wave,
- The shadow of a shadow.
- Snap the flower arrows of desire
- And then, unseen,
- Escape the king of death.
- And travel on.
- Death overtakes the man
- Who gathers flowers
- When with distracted mind and thirsty senses
- He searches vainly for happiness
- In the pleasures of the world.
- Death fetches him away
- As a flood carries off a sleeping village.
- Death overcomes him
- When with distracted mind and thirsty senses
- He gathers flowers.
- He will never have his fill
- Of the pleasures of the world.
- The bee gathers nectar from the flower
- Without marring its beauty or perfume.
- So let the master settle, and wander.
- Look to your own faults,
- What you have done or left undone.
- Overlook the faults of others.
- Like a lovely flower,
- Bright but scentless,
- Are the fine but empty words
- Of the man who does not mean what he says.
- Like a lovely flower,
- Bright and fragrant,
- Are the fine and truthful words
- Of the man who means what he says.
- Like garlands woven from a heap of flowers,
- Fashion from your life as many good deeds.
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