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In visual perception,
In body sensation,
Audition, olfaction,
Gustation, conception:
In allowing sensation,
How good is restriction.
In physical action,
In spoken transaction,
In inward reflection,
How good circumscription.
Restraining all conduct,
Restricting sensation,
A monk finds salvation
From grief and affliction. |
362 |
If a monk is
restrained in acts of hands and feet;
restrained in speech and thought;
inwardly joyful;
composed;
reclusive;
easily contented;
he is really a monk. |
363 |
The words of a monk who’s restrained in his speech,
Whose advice is incisive, whose manner is meek,
Who illuminates Dhamma, both letter and spirit,
The words he delivers indeed are exquisite. |
364 |
A monk who’s delighted
With Dhamma, devoted,
And Dhamma who weighs,
And Dhamma retains,
From Dhamma sublime
Shall never decline. |
365 |
One shouldn’t disparage the gifts one obtains,
Nor crave the possessions that others have gained.
The bhikkhu who envies his comrades’ possessions
Will never experience the mind’s concentration. |
366 |
The monk whose gifts received are modest,
But nonetheless are not disdained,
And he himself is pure and zealous,
The gods themselves that man acclaim. |
367 |
If body and mind in any way
A monk as ‘his’ does not conceive;
For what is not, he’s undismayed,
A monk is justly said to be. |
368 |
The monk who abides in goodwill and who is devoted to the Buddha’s teaching, reaches the peaceful state, the allaying of causal conditions, bliss.
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369 |
This heavy vessel you should bail:
When emptied it will swiftly sail.
Discard all anger,
Shed all greed,
Thence to Nibbana you’ll proceed. |
370 |
Five fetters extinguish,
Five fetters relinquish,
Five powers, moreover, establish.
The monk who has quelled
The five bonds as well,
Has transcended the ocean of anguish. |
371 |
Do not be slack, monk: meditate!
Don’t let your thinking round pleasure gyrate.
Don’t later swallow an iron ball aflame –
And don’t (when you’re burning) then cry “I’m in pain!” |
372 |
In one without wisdom, there’s no concentration;
Without concentration, there’s no revelation.
Whoever has wisdom together with jhana,
Indeed, is not far from beholding Nibbana. |
373 |
The monk who has gone to a lonely hut
And made his mind serene,
Discovers a joy of unearthly delight,
Having Dhamma insightfully seen. |
374 |
When, or wherever, a bhikkhu reflects
On the rise and the fall of the five aggregates,
He savours the joy and felicity
That is known to draw near immortality. |
375 |
Guarding senses, being content,
By the bhikkhu’s Code restrained;
With upright friends being intimate,
Whose lifestyle’s pure, not indolent:
These are training rudiments
For the sapient mendicant. |
376 |
May you be hospitable,
Mannerly, agreeable!
You will thereby joy attain,
Making thus an end of pain. |
377 |
The jasmine plant sheds
Its flowers that are dead,
Just as monks must forsake
All their lust and their hate. |
378 |
Peaceful in conduct,
Peaceful in speaking,
Inwardly still,
And peaceful in thinking:
Having brushed off the world
With its lure and its charm,
A monk who’s like this
Is one truly called ‘calm’. |
379 |
Monk, you must inspect yourself,
And you should exhort yourself.
Mindful and self-guarded thus,
You will live in happiness. |
380 |
The protector of you, is you.
You are your destiny, too.
Yourself, you should therefore control and restrain
Like a dealer in horses a fine steed would tame. |
381 |
The monk who is full of joy, who is devoted to the Buddha’s teaching, reaches the peaceful state, the allaying of causal conditions, bliss. |
382 |
A bhikkhu though of tender years,
Who in the training is sincere,
This world of ours he glorifies:
A moon that shines in cloudless skies. |
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