Dhammaland

Inspirational tweets from the well-known Dhammapada scriptures. Once recited by the Buddha.

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If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup.

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O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time

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If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil.

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A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

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He who seeking his own happiness does not punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death.

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Viz. pain, the origin of pain, the destruction of pain, and the eightfold holy way that leads to the quieting of pain;--

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And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing beginning and end, a life of one day is better if a man sees beginning and end.

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If, like a shattered metal plate (gong), thou utter not, then thou hast reached Nirvana; contention is not known to thee.

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He who always greets and constantly reveres the aged, four things will increase to him, viz. life, beauty, happiness, power.

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As long as the evil deed done does not bear fruit, the fool thinks it is like honey; but when it ripens, then the fool suffers grief.

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Let him live in charity, let him be perfect in his duties; then in the fulness of delight he will make an end of suffering.

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They who fear when they ought not to fear, and fear not when they ought to fear, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path.

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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.

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A supernatural person (a Buddha) is not easily found, he is not born everywhere. Wherever such a sage is born, that race prospers.

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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephants with large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still.

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But that is not a safe refuge, that is not the best refuge; a man is not delivered from all pains after having gone to that refuge.

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But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting.

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Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no hold