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Khuddakanikāya
Minor Collection
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Dhammapada
Sayings of the Dhamma 167–178
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Lokavagga
13. The World
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Hīnaṁ dhammaṁ na seveyya,
Don’t resort to lowly things,
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pamādena na saṁvase;
don’t abide in negligence,
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Micchādiṭṭhiṁ na seveyya,
don’t resort to wrong views,
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na siyā lokavaḍḍhano.
don’t perpetuate the world.
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Uttiṭṭhe nappamajjeyya,
Get up, don’t be heedless,
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dhammaṁ sucaritaṁ care;
live by principle, with good conduct.
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Dhammacārī sukhaṁ seti,
For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
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asmiṁ loke paramhi ca.
in this world and the next.
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Dhammaṁ care sucaritaṁ,
Live by principle, with good conduct,
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na naṁ duccaritaṁ care;
don’t conduct yourself badly.
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Dhammacārī sukhaṁ seti,
For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
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asmiṁ loke paramhi ca.
in this world and the next.
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Pañcasatavipassakabhikkhuvatthu
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Yathā pubbuḷakaṁ passe,
Look upon the world
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yathā passe marīcikaṁ;
as a bubble
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Evaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ,
or a mirage,
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maccurājā na passati.
then the King of Death won’t see you.
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Etha passathimaṁ lokaṁ,
Come, see this world decked out
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cittaṁ rājarathūpamaṁ;
like a fancy royal chariot.
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Yattha bālā visīdanti,
Here fools founder,
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natthi saṅgo vijānataṁ.
but the discerning are not chained.
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Yo ca pubbe pamajjitvā,
He who once was heedless,
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pacchā so nappamajjati;
but turned to heedfulness,
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Somaṁ lokaṁ pabhāseti,
lights up the world
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abbhā muttova candimā.
like the moon freed from clouds.
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Yassa pāpaṁ kataṁ kammaṁ,
Someone whose bad deed
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kusalena pidhīyati;
is supplanted by the good,
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Somaṁ lokaṁ pabhāseti,
lights up the world,
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abbhā muttova candimā.
like the moon freed from clouds.
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Andhabhūto ayaṁ loko,
Blind is the world,
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tanukettha vipassati;
few are those who clearly see.
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Sakuṇo jālamuttova,
Only a handful go to heaven,
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appo saggāya gacchati.
like a bird freed from a net.
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Haṁsādiccapathe yanti,
Swans fly by the sun’s path,
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ākāse yanti iddhiyā;
psychic sages fly through space.
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Nīyanti dhīrā lokamhā,
The attentive leave the world,
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jetvā māraṁ savāhiniṁ.
having vanquished Māra with his legions.
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Ekaṁ dhammaṁ atītassa,
When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
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musāvādissa jantuno;
transgresses in just one thing—
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Vitiṇṇaparalokassa,
lying—
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natthi pāpaṁ akāriyaṁ.
there is no evil they would not do.
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Na ve kadariyā devalokaṁ vajanti,
The miserly don’t ascend to heaven,
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Bālā have nappasaṁsanti dānaṁ;
it takes a fool to not praise giving.
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Dhīro ca dānaṁ anumodamāno,
The attentive celebrate giving,
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Teneva so hoti sukhī parattha.
and so find happiness in the hereafter.
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Anāthapiṇḍikaputtakālavatthu
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Pathabyā ekarajjena,
The fruit of stream-entry is better
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saggassa gamanena vā;
than being the one king of the earth,
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Sabbalokādhipaccena,
than going to heaven,
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sotāpattiphalaṁ varaṁ.
than lordship over all the world.
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