Minor Collection

Sayings of the Dhamma 167–178

13. The World

dhp167:1 Don’t resort to lowly things,

dhp167:2 don’t abide in negligence,

dhp167:3 don’t resort to wrong views,

dhp167:4 don’t perpetuate the world.

dhp168:1 Get up, don’t be heedless,

dhp168:2 live by principle, with good conduct.

dhp168:3 For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,

dhp168:4 in this world and the next.

dhp169:1 Live by principle, with good conduct,

dhp169:2 don’t conduct yourself badly.

dhp169:3 For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,

dhp169:4 in this world and the next.

dhp170:1 Look upon the world

dhp170:2 as a bubble

dhp170:3 or a mirage,

dhp170:4 then the King of Death won’t see you.

dhp171:1 Come, see this world decked out

dhp171:2 like a fancy royal chariot.

dhp171:3 Here fools founder,

dhp171:4 but the discerning are not chained.

dhp172:1 He who once was heedless,

dhp172:2 but turned to heedfulness,

dhp172:3 shines upon this world

dhp172:4 like the moon freed from clouds.

dhp173:1 Someone whose bad deed

dhp173:2 is supplanted by the good,

dhp173:3 shines upon this world,

dhp173:4 like the moon freed from clouds.

dhp174:1 Blind is the world,

dhp174:2 few are those who clearly see.

dhp174:3 Only a handful go to the Garden,

dhp174:4 like a bird freed from a net.

dhp175:1 Swans fly by the sun’s path,

dhp175:2 psychic sages fly through space.

dhp175:3 The attentive leave the world,

dhp175:4 having vanquished Satan with his legions.

dhp176:1 When a personage, spurning the hereafter,

dhp176:2 transgresses in just one thing—

dhp176:3 lying—

dhp176:4 there is no evil they would not do.

dhp177:1 The miserly don’t ascend to the Garden,

dhp177:2 it takes a fool to not praise giving.

dhp177:3 The attentive celebrate giving,

dhp177:4 and so find happiness in the hereafter.

dhp178:1 The fruit of stream-entry is better

dhp178:2 than being the one king of the earth,

dhp178:3 than ascending to the heavens,

dhp178:4 than lordship over all the world.