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Dhammapada XXV: Monks

Subject: Dhammapada XXV: Monks

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360-361*:
Restraint with the eye is good,
good is restraint with the ear.
Restraint with the nose is good,
good is restraint with the tongue.
Restraint with the body is good,
good is restraint with speech.
Restraint with the heart is good,
good is restraint     everywhere.
A monk everywhere restrained
is released from all suffering & stress.


362:

Hands restrained,
feet restrained
speech restrained,
    supremely restrained --
delighting in what is inward,
content, centered, alone:
he's what they call
    a monk.


363*:

A monk restrained in his speaking,
giving counsel unruffled,
declaring the message & meaning:
    sweet is his speech.


364:

Dhamma his dwelling,
Dhamma his delight,
a monk pondering Dhamma,
    calling Dhamma to mind,
does not fall away
from true Dhamma.


365-366:

    Gains:
don't treat your own with scorn,
don't go coveting those of others.
A monk who covets those of others
    attains
    no concentration.

Even if he gets next to nothing,
he doesn't treat his gains with scorn.
Living purely, untiring:
    he's the one
    that the devas praise.


367:

For whom, in name & form
    in every way,
there's no sense of mine,
& who doesn't grieve
for what's not:
he's deservedly called
    a monk.


368*:

Dwelling in kindness, a monk
with faith in the Awakened One's teaching,
would attain the good state,
        the peaceful state:
stilling-of-fabrications ease.


369*:

Monk, bail out this boat.
It will take you lightly when bailed.
Having cut through passion, aversion,
you go from there to Unbinding.


370*:

Cut through five,
let go of five,
& develop five above all.
A monk gone past five attachments
is said to have crossed the flood.


371:

Practice jhana, monk,
and don't be heedless.
Don't take your mind roaming
in sensual strands.
Don't swallow -- heedless --
the ball of iron aflame.
Don't burn & complain: 'This is pain.'


372:

        There's     no jhana
    for one with     no discernment,
                    no discernment
    for one with     no jhana.
    But one with     both jhana
                    & discernment:
he's on the verge
        of Unbinding.


373-374:

A monk with his mind at peace,
going into an empty dwelling,
clearly seeing the Dhamma aright:
    his delight is more
    than human.

However it is,
however it is he touches
the arising-&-passing of aggregates:
he gains rapture & joy:
    that, for those who know it,
        is deathless,
        the Deathless.


375-376:

Here the first things
for a discerning monk
are     guarding the senses,
        contentment,
        restraint in line with the Patimokkha.
He should associate with admirable friends,
        living purely, untiring,
        hospitable by habit,
        skilled in his conduct.
Gaining a manifold joy,
he will put an end
to suffering & stress.


377:

Shed passion
& aversion, monks --
as a jasmine would,
its withered flowers.


378:

Calmed in body,
calmed in speech,
well-centered & calm,
having disgorged the baits of the world,
a monk is called
    thoroughly
    calmed.


379:

You yourself should reprove yourself,
            should examine yourself.
As a self-guarded monk
with guarded self,
mindful, you dwell at ease.


380:

Your own self is
your own mainstay.
Your own self is
your own guide.
Therefore you should
watch over yourself --
as a trader, a fine steed.


381*:

A monk with a manifold joy,
with faith in the Awakened One's teaching,
would attain the good state,
        the peaceful state:
stilling-of-fabrications ease.


382:

A young monk who strives
in the Awakened One's teaching,
    brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.

Revised: Sun 3 October 1999
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/dhp/25.html

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