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Chapter Thirteen -- The World
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Follow not the vulgar way; live not in
heedlessness; hold not false views; linger not
long in worldly existence.
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Arise! Do not be heedless! Lead a life
of good conduct. The righteous live happily both
in this world and the next.
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Lead a life of good conduct. Lead not a
base life. The righteous live happily both in this
world and the next.
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One who looks upon the world as a
bubble and a mirage, that person the
King of Death does not see.
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Come! Behold this world, which is like
a decorated royal chariot. Here fools flounder,
but the wise have no attachment to it.
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One who having been heedless is heedless
no more, illuminates this world like the moon
freed from clouds.
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One who by good deeds covers the evil
one has done, illuminates this world like the moon
freed from clouds.
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Blind is this world; here only a few
possess insight. Only a few, like birds escaping
from a net, go to the realms of bliss.
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Swans fly on the path of the sun; people
pass through the air by psychic powers; the wise
are led away from the world after vanquishing
Mara and his host.
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For liars who have violated the one
law (of truthfulness), who hold in scorn the
hereafter, there is no evil that they cannot do.
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Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms;
nor, indeed, do fools praise generosity. But
wise persons rejoice in giving, and by that
alone do they become happy hereafter.
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Better than sole sovereignty over the
earth, better than going to heaven, better even
than lordship over all the worlds is the fruition
of Stream-entry.