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Starting today ,I will write one of the four versions of
Dhammapada ,that I have read through the years.The Dhammapada is a Minor Story/Discourse of the LORD BUDDHA GAUTAMA.

This version dates fifth century AC.This version is of the Theravada lineage.Buddha and his disciples,lay down the following verses and are contained in the Tipitaka.

The author was :BHADANTACARIYA BUDDHAGHOSA,translated by
E.W.BURLINGAME as "Buddhist Legends.
Source

What-Buddha-Said . net.

These verses of both importance and universal relevance may henceforth very well speak for themselves.May your understanding be complete.Enjoy the depth.

Loong
Rereading,and reunderstanding more deeply.I hope.

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The Dhammapada contains 26 chapters.Today and for a few days we will start with chapter I ,Twin pairs.it contains 20verses.
Too day we will look at the 4 first verses.So here goes..

Chapter1,Twin Pairs
ORIGIN

Mind always comes first
Mind is of all states the primer
By mentality are all things initiated
By thought of Mind are all phenomena Formed.
So-if with good intention one thinks,speaks or acts,
Joy surely follows one like the never a leaving shadow.
HOWEVER!!!!
If with evil intention one thinks,speaks or acts
Pain certainly follows one like the wheel follows the car.

BURNING2-3
Those absorbed in such accusations as:
He/She/They abused ,hurt,did me or us wrong,
Whether right or wrong !such foolish ones only prolong
Own pain by being obsessed by their own anger.

HOWEVER!!!
those freed of these accusations:
He/She/They abused,hurt,did me or us wrong:
Nothing,whether right or wrong-so what!!!
such clever ones stop own pain by relinquishing all anger.

That is enough for today .Great words to ponder on

Loong
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Made a little error yesterday ,Burning was 3&4.

Today we will see,5,6,7.

FUEL ON FIRE #5

Not by anger is Hate ever quenched
Only by Kindness is Hate always quenched.
This Ancient Law is an Eternal...Truth...


GRAPPING THE WHEEL #6

The crowd often does not know how
To control themselves here & now.
The wise who do know this necessity
Of self-control end their quarrels.Their disputes all cease there &then.

DRIFTING. #7

Whoever lives in search &urge for pleasure&beauty,
unguarded in senses,immoderately indulging,
lazy,lethargic,inactive,dulled into apathy;Such ones Mara(evil)
Sweeps away like breaking a branch of a tiny bush...

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Today we shall look at 8-9-10.

SMILING MOUNTAIN -8

Whoever lives cooled by genuine disgust,guarded in senses,
moderately enjoying,alert active,arare,exerting energetic effort
Such one Mara(evil) find immovable like the wind the mighty
Mountain.

HUMAN DUST-9
The impure person,uncontrolled ,immoral,keeping secrets,not honest
is neither worthy nor fit for the Yellow Robe.

HUMAN TREASURE-10

The straight person ,restrained,keeping precepts,open honest,
is both worthy &fit for the Yellow Robe.

Loong
Simple Buddhist(monk without a Robe).

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The Dhammapada word sound foreign,maybe too hard stuff.

The Dhammapada is a very imortant document that helped me and is helping all the persons who read it.Questions just ask.If I fail to answer ,Lisa the moderator is much more Advanced than I am and I am sure we would her and I find a good explanation for your questions.Some parts of the Dhammapada will be hard to read but so true.
Stay with me,we will learn what the Grand Master Buddha Gautana had to say to us.

This document has to be read with a very open mind.

loong
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Today we will look at verses 11-12-13,

CONFUSED-11

Those who mistakes the relative to be both essential&absolute
And mistakes the essential and absolute to be relative never attains to neither the essential or the absolute.....

ASSURED-12

Those who see the essential in the essential and the absolute in the absolute ,discriminating what is merely relative,attains to
The essential and absolute TRUTH....

PRONE-13

Exactly as rain penetrate and enter a house with a leaky roof
even so do all desire ,greed,and urge of craving penetrate and
enter the undeveloped unrefined Mind.

Loong,s comment :loved #13.

loong
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Text taken from What-Buddka-Said.net
Today we shall look at verses 14-15-16.

REFINED-14

Exactly as rain cannot neither penetrate nor enter a house
With a tight




roof,even so cannot any desire,greed,nor urge of craving
penetrate nor enter the well developed,well refined Mind.

DOING BAD-15

Here and now the bad-doers suffers... Even so after passing away and reemerging ,the doer of wrong reaps only pain and regret...
So both here and there the fool with wrong&evil behavior badly
done suffers from the inevitable results of prior actions.

DOING GOOD-16

Here and now the good-doer rejoices...Even so after passing away and reemerging,the doer of good reaps only Joy and satisfaction...
So both here and there the Wise with merit well done enjoys the purity of prior actions.

Loong
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Sorry I am working with my tablette,I cannot cut/paste

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Today we shall finish the first chapter of the Dhammapada.
The text is from Sri-lanka and is Theravadean

REMORSE-17

Here hesuffers So too after death he suffers.

The Evil-doer having done wrong suffers pain ,regret,& remorse
both places!Remembering ,looking back,seeing thinking ";
Oh I have done bad actions of evil nature he suffers.the pain of the worlds of only suffering even more.

REJOICING-18

Here he rejoices.So too after death he rejoices.the one having done good works rejoices both places! remembering ,looking back ,seeing & thinking ;Oh I have done good works ,well done he enjoys the BLISS of the happy worlds even more.

INTELLECTUAL-19

Although as expert reciting the Holy Scriptures,writing &speaking
much sense,if not living and actually acting according to this very same DHAMMA,such one enjoys not even a fraction of the NOBLE LIFE

PRACTICAL-20

Even when a novice does not recite the Holy Scriptures,and neither writes nor speaks much sence , if always living and actually acting according to this DHAMMA such one certinly enjoys the WHOLE OF THE NOBLE LIFE.

Great words of wisdom.Tomorrow we will start Chapter 2

ALERTNESS-APPAMADA

loong
always rejoicing when reading such words.
but still a simple buddhist

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Today we start Chapter 2 ALERTNESSThis text is a copy of aTHeravada lineage version of many,many versions available.Each verse has a #
attribuated to it.Today we shall look at verses 21-22-23-24

HEEDLESS-21(The word meens one who is not active in life )

Careful seriousness is the way to the deathless state.Careless shallowness is the way to repeated death.The careful one becomes undying while the careless is as if already dead...(again)!!!

HEEDFUL-22

The clever ones knows that the very seriousness to make the difference ,knows it to be the choice select. Carefully they make themselves Joy rejoicing in the Noble State.

EXPERTS-23

They who meditate regularly.
They who endure enthousiastically
They who exert effort
These wise ones attain NIBBANA;
The Supreme Peace,the sublime Bliss.

SPREADING FAME-24

He who exerts effort,one who is alert,and always aware,
one who does good deeds voluntarely& deliberately,
one who is kind and considerate in all dealings,
one who is restrained and controlled,
one who lives according to the real truth of DHAMMA,
carefully and seriouslythe Fame of such one grows ever & exceedingly


That is it for today.

loong
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This tet is a Theravadean textfrom sri-lanka.

Today we shall see verse 25-26-27-28-
SAFETY-25

By arousing and inspiring oneself to putting forth stable & energetic effort;By meticulous carefulness;
By well trained ,well restrained self-control,the wise the clever ones make themselves an island safe no flood nor fever can ever overwhelm.

GUARDING VS DRIFTING-26

Fools,ignorants drift carelessly around to and fro.Theclever one
meticously guard own lonfgrown thorough carefulness as the greatest treasure.

THE REAL BLISS-27

So do not give in to the carelessness of only plauful indulgence in pleasures of the senses,since serious practice of meditation results verily i profound BLISSl yeah!The immene Happiness of NIBBANA...

CLEAR-SIGHTED,ABOVE AND ALOUF-28

When the clever one develops carefulness,thereby leaving caewlessness,it is as if climbing a staircase made of INSIGHT,
step by step...Such wise one gazes joyfullydown as from a mountaintop -called-incertainty-on the simple folk stressingaround below

loong
simple buddhist.

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