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Chapter Twenty-One -- Miscellaneous
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If by renouncing a lesser happiness
one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise
person renounce the lesser, having regard
for the greater.
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One who seeks one's own happiness by
inflicting pain on others, entangled by the
bonds of hate, will never be delivered from hate.
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For those who are arrogant and heedless,
who leave undone what should be done and do
what should not be done--for them the
cankers only increase.
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Those who always earnestly practise
mindfulness of the body, who do not resort to
what should not be done, and steadfastly pursue
what should be done, mindful and clearly
comprehending--their cankers cease.
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Having slain mother (craving), father
(ego-conceit), two warrior kings (eternalism and
nihilism), and destroyed a country (sense organs
and sense objects) together with its treasurer
(attachment and lust), ungrieving goes the holy person.
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Having slain mother, father, two brahmin
kings (two extreme views), and a tiger as the
fifth (the five mental hindrances), ungrieving
goes the holy person.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily who day and night constantly practise
the recollection of the Buddha.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily who day and night constantly practise
the recollection of the Dhamma.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily who day and night constantly practise
the recollection of the Sangha.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily who day and night constantly practise
mindfulness of the body.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily whose minds by day and night delight in
the practice of non-harming.
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Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken
happily whose minds by day and night delight in
the practice of meditation.
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Difficult is life as a renunciate; difficult
is it to delight therein. Also difficult and
sorrowful is household life. Suffering comes from
association with unequals, suffering comes from
wandering in samsara. Therefore, be not an
aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering.
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One who is full of faith and virtue, and
possesses good repute and wealth--that person is
respected everywhere, in whatever land one travels.
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The good shine even from afar, like the
Himalaya mountain. But the wicked are unseen,
like arrows shot in the night.
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One who sits alone, sleeps alone and walks
alone, who is strenuous and subdues oneself
alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.