The Dhammapada Vol 12 ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 21 Apr 1980 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 41min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | DHAM1201 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- A man is not born to mastery.
- A master is never proud.
- He does not talk down to others.
- Owning nothing, he misses nothing.
- He is not afraid.
- He does not tremble.
- Nothing binds him.
- He is infinitely free.
- So cut through
- The strap and the thong and the rope.
- Loosen the fastenings.
- Unbolt the doors of sleep
- And awake.
- The master endures
- Insults and ill treatment
- Without reacting.
- For his spirit is an army.
- He is never angry.
- He keeps his promises.
- He never strays, he is determined.
- This body is my last, he says!
- Like water on the leaf of a lotus flower
- Or a mustard seed on the point of a needle,
- He does not cling.
- For he has reached the end of sorrow
- And has laid down his burden.
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