Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:25 pm - Let him live a life of cordiality.
Let him be skilled in good conduct.
And full of joy thereby,
He will put an end to ill.
By yourself censure yourself.
By yourself examine... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:24 pm - Let go the past, let go the future too,
Let go the present and go beyond becoming.
With mind released from everything,
To birth-and-decay you shall come no more.
All gifts the gift of... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:24 pm - The good shine from far away
Just as the Himalayan peaks.
The wicked are not seen, though near,
Just as an arrow shot at night.
...
A sluggard, or glutton, too,
Rolling himself... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:24 pm - As long as the brushwood of lust, however small,
Of a man towards a woman is not destroyed,
So long is his mind attached (to existence)
As a sucking calf to its mother-cow.
No sons are... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:23 pm - A man is not called wise
Merely because he speaks much.
Secure, hateless and fearless -
Such a man is called wise.
A man is not an elder
Merely because his head is grey.
Ripe is... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:23 pm - There never was, and never will be,
Nor is there now to be found
A person who is wholly blamed
Or wholly praised,
.....
By gradual practice,
From moment to moment,
And little by... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:22 pm - From love springs grief,
From love springs fear;
For him who is free from love
Thire is neither grief nor fear.
From lust springs grief,
From lust springs fear;
For him who is... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:22 pm - Oneself indeed is master of oneself,
Who else could other master be?
With oneself perfectly trained,
One obtains a refuge hard to gain.
An exceedingly corrupted man is like
A... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:22 pm - What this laughter, what this joy
When the world is ever on fire?
Shrounded all about by darkness,
Will you not then look for light?
Behold this beautiful body,
A mass of sores, a... (view)
Fri 22 Dec, 2006 09:21 pm - All tremble at punishment;
All fear death;
Comparing others with oneself,
One should neither kill nor cause to kill.
Speak not harshly to anyone.
Those thus addressed will retort.... (view)
