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

The Judge : 271-272

Monk,
don’t
on account of
your habits & practices,
great erudition,
concentration attainments,
secluded dwelling,
or the thought, ‘I touch
the renunciate ease
that run-of-the-mill people
don’t know’:
ever let yourself get complacent
when the ending of effluents
is still unattained.


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Dhammapada XX : The Path


Of paths, the eightfold is best.
Of truths, the four sayings.
Of qualities, dispassion.
Of two-footed beings,
the one with the eyes
to see.

273*
Dhammapada XX : The Path


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Just this is the path
–there is no other–
to purify vision. Follow it,
and that will be Mara’sbewilderment.

Following it, you put an end
to suffering & stress.
I have taught you this path
having known
–for your knowing–
the extraction of arrows.
It’s for you to strive
ardently.

Tathagatas simply
point out the way.
Those who practice,
absorbed in jhana:
from Mara’s bonds
they’ll be freed.

274-276*
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When you see with discernment,
‘All fabrications are inconstant’–
you grow disenchanted with stress.

This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
‘All fabrications are stressful’–
you grow disenchanted with stress.

This is the path
to purity.
When you see with discernment,
‘All phenomena are not-self’–
you grow disenchanted with stress.

This is the path
to purity.

277-279
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At the time for initiative
he takes no initiative.
Young, strong, but lethargic,
the resolves of his heart
exhausted, the lazy, lethargic one
loses the path to discernment.

280
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“In the wilderness, at a tree’s root, or an empty hut, O mendicants, recollect the Buddha, and no fear will come to you.

If you can’t recollect the Buddha—the eldest in the world, the chief of men—then recollect the teaching, emancipating, well taught.

If you can’t recollect the teaching—emancipating, well taught—then recollect the Saṅgha, the supreme field of merit.

Thus recollecting the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saṅgha, mendicants, fear and terror and goosebumps will be no more.”

SN 11.3 : Dhajaggasutta

Guarded in speech,
well-restrained in mind,
you should do nothing unskillful
in body.

Purify these three courses of action.
Bring to fruition the path that seers have proclaimed.

281
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