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## Dhammapada XV

# Happy

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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197-200:

> How very happily we live,
> free from hostility
> among those who are hostile.
> Among hostile people,
> free from hostility we dwell.

> How very happily we live,
> free from misery
> among those who are miserable.
> Among miserable people,
> free from misery we dwell.

> How very happily we live,
> free from busyness
> among those who are busy.
> Among busy people,
> free from busyness we dwell.

> How very happily we live,
> we who have nothing.
> We will feed on rapture
> like the Radiant gods.

201:

> Winning gives birth to hostility.
> Losing, one lies down in pain.
> The calmed lie down with ease,
> having set
> winning & losing
> aside.

202-204:

> There's no fire like passion,
> no loss like anger,
> no pain like the aggregates,
> no ease other than peace.

> Hunger: the foremost illness.
> Fabrications: the foremost pain.
> For one knowing this truth
> as it actually is,
> Unbinding
> is the foremost ease.

> Freedom from illness: the foremost good fortune.
> Contentment: the foremost wealth.
> Trust: the foremost kinship.
> Unbinding: the foremost ease.

205:

> Drinking the nourishment,
> the flavor,
> of seclusion & calm,
> one is freed from evil, devoid
> of distress,
> refreshed with the nourishment
> of rapture in the Dhamma.

206-208:

> It's good to see Noble Ones.
> Happy their company -- always.
> Through not seeing fools
> constantly, constantly
> one would be happy.

> For, living with a fool,
> one grieves a long time.
> Painful is communion with fools,
> as with an enemy --
> always.
> Happy is communion
> with the enlightened,
> as with a gathering of kin.

> So:
> the enlightened man --
> discerning, learned,
> enduring, dutiful, noble,
> intelligent, a man of integrity:
> follow him
> -- one of this sort --
> as the moon, the path
> of the zodiac stars.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001