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## Dhammapada XIII

# Worlds

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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167:

> Don't associate with lowly qualities.
> Don't consort with heedlessness.
> Don't associate with wrong views.
> Don't busy yourself with the world.

168-169:

> Get up! Don't be heedless.
> Live the Dhamma well.
> One who lives the Dhamma
> sleeps with ease
> in this world & the next.

> Live the Dhamma well.
> Don't live it badly.
> One who lives the Dhamma
> sleeps with ease
> in this world & the next.

170*:

> See it as a bubble,
> see it as a mirage:
> one who regards the world this way
> the King of Death doesn't see.

171:

> Come look at this world
> all decked out
> like a royal chariot,
> where fools plunge in,
> while those who know
> don't cling.

172-173:

> Who once was heedless,
> but later is not,
> brightens the world
> like the moon set free from a cloud.

> His evil-done deed
> is replaced with skillfulness:
> he brightens the world
> like the moon set free from a cloud.

174:

> Blinded this world --
> how few here see clearly!
> Just as birds who've escaped
> from a net are
> few, few
> are the people
> who make it to heaven.

175:

> Swans fly the path of the sun;
> those with the power fly through space;
> the enlightened flee from the world,
> having defeated the armies of Mara.

176*:

> The person who tells a lie,
> who transgresses in this one thing,
> transcending concern for the world beyond:
> there's no evil
> he might not do.

177:

> No misers go
> to the world of the devas.
> Those who don't praise giving
> are fools.
> The enlightened
> express their approval for giving
> and so find ease
> in the world beyond.

178*:

> Sole dominion over the earth,
> going to heaven,
> lordship over all worlds:
> the fruit of Stream-entry
> excels them.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001