Sunday, December 18, 2011

The first and final verse of The Dhammapada*

Way-points on the path of enlightenment 

Chapter I, verse 1:

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thought. If a man speaks or acts with a [kind] thought, [happiness] follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

Chapter XXVI, verse 423:

Him I call indeed a Brahmana** who knows [from where he comes from], who sees heaven and hell, has reached the end of births, is perfect in knowledge, a sage, an whose perfections are all perfect.

*The essential teachings of The Buddha
**One who is rid of evil

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