Dhammapada Part I

Verse 7 Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated.Verse 8 Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#7

Verse 9 Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk’s yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.Verse 10 But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#9

Verse 11 Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.Verse 12 Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#11

Verse 13 Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.Verse 14 Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-developed mind. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#13

Verse 15 The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#15

Verse 16 The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#16

Verse 17 The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers in both the worlds. The thought, “Evil have I done,” torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to realms of woe. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#17

Verse 18 The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#18

Verse 19 Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others—he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.Verse 20 Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world—he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#19

Verse 21 Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already.Verse 22 Clearly understanding this excellence of heedfulness, the wise exult therein and enjoy the resort of the Noble Ones.Verse 23 The wise ones, ever meditative and steadfastly persevering, alone experience Nibbana, the incomparable freedom from bondage. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#21

Verse 24 Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic, mindful and pure in conduct, discerning and self-controlled, righteous and heedful. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#24

Verse 25 By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#25

Verse 26 The foolish and ignorant indulge in heedlessness, but the wise one keeps his heedfulness as his best treasure.Verse 27 Do not give way to heedlessness. Do not indulge in sensual pleasures. Only the heedful and meditative attain great happiness. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#26

Verse 28 Just as one upon the summit of a mountain beholds the groundlings, even so when the wise man casts away heedlessness by heedfulness and ascends the high tower of wisdom, this sorrowless sage beholds the sorrowing and foolish multitude. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#28

Verse 29 Heedful among the heedless, wide-awake among the sleepy, the wise man advances like a swift horse leaving behind a weak jade. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp21-32/en/buddharakkhita#29