Contents
- Chapter I: The Twin-Verses
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or …
- Chapter II: On Earnestness
Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are …
- Chapter III: Thought
As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, …
- Chapter IV: Flowers
Who shall overcome this earth, and the world of Yama (the lord of the departed), and the world of the gods? Who shall find out the plainly …
- Chapter V: The Fool
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true …
- Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita)
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers …
- Chapter VII: The Venerable (Arhat)
There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides, and thrown off all …
- Chapter VIII: The Thousands
Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he …
- Chapter IX: Evil
If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights …
- Chapter X: Punishment
All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause …
- Chapter XI: Old Age
How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by …
- Chapter XII: Self
If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully; during one at least out of the three watches a wise man should be …
- Chapter XIII: The World
Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the …
- Chapter XIV: The Buddha (The Awakened)
He whose conquest is not conquered again, into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, …
- Chapter XV: Happiness
Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us! among men who hate us let us dwell free from …
- Chapter XVI: Pleasure
He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will …
- Chapter XVII: Anger
Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and …
- Chapter XVIII: Impurity
Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama) have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou …
- Chapter XIX: The Just
A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads others, not …
- Chapter XX: The Way
The best of ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of men he who has eyes …
- Chapter XXI: Miscellaneous
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the …
- Chapter XXII: The Downward Course
He who says what is not, goes to hell; he also who, having done a thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men …
- Chapter XXIII: The Elephant
Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is …
- Chapter XXIV: Thirst
The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the …
- Chapter XXV: The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
Restraint in the eye is good, good is restraint in the ear, in the nose restraint is good, good is restraint in the …
- Chapter XXVI: The Brahmana (Arhat)
Stop the stream valiantly, drive away the desires, O Brahmana! When you have understood the destruction of all that was made, you will …
Cite this text
The Buddha (traditional). The Dhammapada. Translated by F. Max Müller. 1881. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/dhammapada-muller.
The Buddha (traditional), The Dhammapada, trans. F. Max Müller (1881), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/dhammapada-muller.
The Buddha (traditional). The Dhammapada. Translated by F. Max Müller, 1881. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/dhammapada-muller.
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