Impurities : 252-253

It’s easy to see
the errors of others,
but hard to see
your own.
You winnow like chaff
the errors of others,
but conceal your own–
like a cheat, an unlucky throw.
If you focus on the errors of others,
constantly finding fault,
your effluents flourish.
You’re far from their ending.

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When you’ve given up five mental obstacles, and expelled all corruptions, and cut off affection and hate, being independent, live alone like a horned rhino.

When you’ve put pleasure and pain behind you, and former happiness and sadness, and gained equanimity serene and pure, live alone like a horned rhino.

Not neglecting retreat and absorption, always living in line with the teachings, comprehending the danger in rebirths, live alone like a horned rhino.

One whose aim is the ending of craving—diligent, clever, learned, mindful, resolute—who has appraised the teaching and is bound for awakening, should live alone like a horned rhino.

Partial excepts from Snp 1.3 : Khaggavisāṇasutta
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Impurities : 254-255

There’s no trail in space,
no outside contemplative.
People are smitten
with objectification,
but devoid of objectification are
the Tathagatas.
There’s no trail in space,
no outside contemplative,
no eternal fabrications,
no wavering in the Awakened.

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Dhammapada XIX : The Judge


The Judge : 256-257

To pass judgment hurriedly
doesn’t mean you’re a judge.
The wise one, weighing both
the right judgment & wrong,
judges others impartially–
unhurriedly, in line with the Dhamma,
guarding the Dhamma,
guarded by Dhamma,
intelligent:
he’s called a judge.


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The Judge : 258-259

Simply talking a lot
doesn’t mean one is wise.
Whoever’s secure–
no hostility,
fear–
is said to be wise.
Simply talking a lot
doesn’t maintain the Dhamma.
Whoever
–although he’s heard next to nothing–
sees Dhamma through his body,
is not heedless of Dhamma:
he’s one who maintains the Dhamma.


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The Judge : 260-261

A head of gray hairs
doesn’t mean one’s an elder.
Advanced in years,
one’s called an old fool.
But one in whom there is
truth, restraint,
rectitude, gentleness,
self-control–
he’s called an elder,
his impurities disgorged,
enlightened.


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The Judge : 262-263

Not by suave conversation
or lotus-like coloring
does an envious, miserly cheat
become an exemplary man.
But one in whom this is
cut through
up-rooted
wiped out–
he’s called exemplary,
his aversion disgorged,
intelligent.


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The Judge : 264-265

A shaven head
doesn’t mean a contemplative.
The liar observing no duties,
filled with greed & desire:
what kind of contemplative’s he?
But whoever tunes out
the dissonance
of his evil qualities
–large or small–
in every way
by bringing evil to consonance:
he’s called a contemplative.


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The Judge : 266-267

Begging from others
doesn’t mean one’s a monk.
As long as one follows
householders’ ways,
one is no monk at all.
But whoever puts aside
both merit & evil and,
living the chaste life,
judiciously
goes through the world:
he’s called a monk.


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The Judge : 268-269

Not by silence
does someone confused
& unknowing
turn into a sage.
But whoever–wise,
as if holding the scales,
taking the excellent–
rejects evil deeds:
he is a sage,
that’s how he’s a sage.
Whoever can weigh
both sides of the world:
that’s how he’s called
a sage.

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The Judge : 270

Not by harming life
does one become noble.
One is termed noble
for being gentle
to all living things.


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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English philosopher and Christian apologist