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NOTE: All selections below from "The Dhammapada," a collection of the Buddha's essential sayings, translation by Venerable Sri Acharya Buddharakkhita, 1986
ALL TREMBLE AT VIOLENCE; life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.
One who, while himself seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will find happiness hereafter.
-- No. 130-132 from "Violence," chapter 10
IRRIGATORS REGULATE THE WATERS, fletchers straighten arrow shafts, carpenters shape wood, and the good control themselves.
-- No. 145 from "Violence"
TO AVOID ALL EVIL, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-- No. 183, from "The Buddha," chapter 14
HAPPY INDEED WE LIVE, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred...
VICTORY BEGETS ENMITY; the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat.
-- No. 197 and 201 from "Happiness," chapter 15
HE WHO CHECKS RISING ANGER as a charioteer checks a rolling chariot, him I call a true charioteer. Others only hold the reins...
OVERCOME THE ANGRY by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
-- No. 222 and 223 from "Anger," chapter 17
MIND PRECEDES ALL MENTAL STATES. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
MIND PRECEDES ALL MENTAL STATES. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
No. 1 and 2 from "The Pairs," chapter 1
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