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## Dhammapada XXI

# Miscellany

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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290:

> If, by forsaking
> a limited ease,
> he would see
> an abundance of ease,
> the enlightened man
> would forsake
> the limited ease
> for the sake
> of the abundant.

291:

> He wants his own ease
> by giving others dis-ease.
> Intertwined in the inter-
> action of hostility,
> from hostility
> he's not set free.

292-293*:

> In those who
> reject what should,
> & do what shouldn't be done
> -- heedless, insolent --
> effluents grow.

> But for those who
> are well-applied, constantly,
> to mindfulness immersed in the body;
> don't indulge
> in what shouldn't be done
> & persist
> in what should
> -- mindful, alert --
> effluents come to an end.

294-295*:

> Having killed mother & father,
> two warrior kings,
> the kingdom & its dependency --
> the brahman, untroubled, travels on.

> Having killed mother & father,
> two learned kings,
> &, fifth, a tiger --
> the brahman, untroubled, travels on.

296-301*:

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose mindfulness, both day & night,
> is constantly immersed
> in the Buddha.

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose mindfulness, both day & night,
> is constantly immersed
> in the Dhamma.

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose mindfulness, both day & night,
> is constantly immersed
> in the Sangha.

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose mindfulness, both day & night,
> is constantly immersed
> in the body.

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose hearts delight, both day & night,
> in harmlessness.

> They awaken, always wide awake:
> Gotama's disciples
> whose hearts delight, both day & night,
> in developing the mind.

302:

> Hard is the life gone forth,
> hard to delight in.
> Hard is the miserable
> householder's life.
> It's painful to stay with dissonant people,
> painful to travel the road.
> So be neither traveler
> nor pained.

303*:

> The man of conviction
> endowed with virtue,
> glory, & wealth:
> wherever he goes
> he is honored.

304:

> The good shine from afar
> like the snowy Himalayas.
> The bad don't appear
> even when near,
> like arrows shot into the night.

305:

> Sitting alone,
> resting alone,
> walking alone,
> untiring.
> Taming himself,
> he'd delight alone --
> alone in the forest.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001