Dhammapada

The Path Of Dharma
I. Yamakavagga: The Pairs

1-2
Phenomena are preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
If you speak or act
with a corrupted heart,
then suffering follows you —
as the wheel of the cart,
the track of the ox
that pulls it.

Phenomena are preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
If you speak or act
with a calm, bright heart,
then happiness follows you,
like a shadow
that never leaves.

3-6
'He insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me'
— for those who brood on this,
hostility isn't stilled.

'He insulted me,
hit me,
beat me,
robbed me' —
for those who don't brood on this,
hostility is stilled.

Hostilities aren't stilled
through hostility,
regardless.

Hostilities are stilled
through non-hostility:
this, an unending truth.
Unlike those who don't realize
that we're here on the verge
of perishing,
those who do:
their quarrels are stilled.

7-8
One who stays focused on the beautiful,
is unrestrained with the senses,
knowing no moderation in food,
apathetic, unenergetic:
Mara overcomes him
as the wind, a weak tree.

One who stays focused on the foul,
is restrained with regard to the senses,
knowing moderation in food,
full of conviction & energy:
Mara does not overcome him
as the wind, a mountain of rock.

9-10
He who, depraved,
devoid
of truthfulness
& self-control,
puts on the ochre robe,
doesn't deserve the ochre robe.

But he who is free
of depravity
endowed
with truthfulness
& self-control,
well-established
in the precepts,
truly deserves the ochre robe.

Happy New Year !!

Attitude

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton

Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book .

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark