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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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*
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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
Dhammapada XX : The Path

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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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From striving comes wisdom; from not, wisdom’s end.
Knowing these two courses
–to development, decline–
conduct yourself
so that wisdom will grow.

282
Dhammapada XX : The Path


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Ultimate Science

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Professor of Samatha Meditation

International Theravàda Buddha Missionary University, Yangon

Adviser to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Union of Myanmar

The prophecy that an able person would soon appear to contribute to the world of knowledge in the field of Buddhist Psycho-ethical-philosophy, which we commonly appreciate as Buddha Abhidhamma, has now come true.

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Cut down the forest of desire,
not the forest of trees.
From the forest of desire
come danger & fear.
Having cut down this forest
& its underbrush, monks,
be deforested.
For as long as the least
bit of underbrush
of a man for women
is not cleared away,
the heart is fixated
like a suckling calf
on its mother.

Crush
your sense of self-allure
like an autumn lily
in the hand.

Nurture only the path to peace
–Unbinding–
as taught by the One Well Gone.

283-285
Dhammapada XX : The Path


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‘Here I’ll stay for the rains.
Here, for the summer & winter.’
So imagines the fool,
unaware of obstructions.
That drunk-on-his-sons-&-cattle man,
all tangled up in the mind:
death sweeps him away–
as a great flood,
a village asleep.

There are
no sons
to give shelter,
no father,
no family
for one seized by the Ender,
no shelter among kin.

Realizing
this force of reasoning,
the wise man, restrained by virtue,
Should make the path pure
–right away–
that goes all the way to Unbinding.

286-289*
Dhammapada XX : The Path


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