The Dhammapada Vol 09 ~ 09
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 19 Feb 1980 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 24min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | DHAM0909 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- If you sleep,
- Desire grows in you
- Like a vine in the forest.
- Like a monkey in the forest
- You jump from tree to tree,
- Never finding the fruit --
- From life to life,
- Never finding peace.
- If you are filled with desire,
- Your sorrows swell
- Like the grass after the rain.
- But if you subdue desire,
- Your sorrows fall from you
- Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
- This is good counsel
- And it is for everyone:
- As the grass is cleared for the fresh root,
- Cut down desire
- Lest death after death crush you
- As a river crushes the helpless reeds.
- For if the roots hold firm,
- A felled tree grows up again.
- If desires are not uprooted,
- Sorrows grow again in you.
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