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## Dhammapada VI

# The Wise

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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76-77:

> Regard him as one who
> points out
> treasure,
> the wise one who
> seeing your faults
> rebukes you.
> Stay with this sort of sage.
> For the one who stays
> with a sage of this sort,
> things get better,
> not worse.

> Let him admonish, instruct,
> deflect you
> away from poor manners.
> To the good, he's endearing;
> to the bad, he's not.

78:

> Don't associate with bad friends.
> Don't associate with the low.
> Associate with admirable friends.
> Associate with the best.

79*:

> Drinking the Dhamma,
> refreshed by the Dhamma,
> one sleeps at ease
> with clear awareness & calm.
> In the Dhamma revealed
> by the noble ones,
> the wise person
> always delights.

80:

> Irrigators guide the water.
> Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
> Carpenters shape the wood.
> The wise control
> themselves.

81:

> As a single slab of rock
> won't budge in the wind,
> so the wise are not moved
> by praise,
> by blame.

82:

> Like a deep lake,
> clear, unruffled, & calm:
> so the wise become clear,
> calm,
> on hearing words of the Dhamma.

83*:

> Everywhere, truly,
> those of integrity
> stand apart.
> They, the good,
> don't chatter in hopes
> of favor or gains.
> When touched
> now by pleasure,
> now pain,
> the wise give no sign
> of high
> or low.

84:

> One who wouldn't --
> not for his own sake
> nor that of another --
> hanker for
> wealth,
> a son,
> a kingdom,
> his own fulfillment,
> by unrighteous means:
> he is righteous, rich
> in virtue,
> discernment.

85-89*:

> Few are the people
> who reach the Far Shore.
> These others
> simply scurry along
> this shore.
> But those who practice Dhamma
> in line with the well-taught Dhamma,
> will cross over the realm of Death
> so hard to transcend.

> Forsaking dark practices,
> the wise person
> should develop the bright,
> having gone from home
> to no-home
> in seclusion, so hard to enjoy.
> There he should wish for delight,
> discarding sensuality --
> he who has nothing.
> He should cleanse himself -- wise --
> of what defiles the mind.

> Whose minds are well-developed
> in the factors of self-awakening,
> who delight in non-clinging,
> relinquishing grasping --
> resplendent,
> their effluents ended:
> they, in the world,
> are Unbound.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001