dhp167:0.1Minor Collection
dhp167:0.2Sayings of the Dhamma 167–178
dhp167:0.313. The World
dhp167:1Don’t resort to lowly things,
dhp167:2don’t abide in negligence,
dhp167:3don’t resort to wrong views,
dhp167:4don’t perpetuate the world.
dhp168:1Get up, don’t be heedless,
dhp168:2live by principle, with good conduct.
dhp168:3For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
dhp168:4in this world and the next.
dhp169:1Live by principle, with good conduct,
dhp169:2don’t conduct yourself badly.
dhp169:3For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
dhp169:4in this world and the next.
dhp170:1Look upon the world
dhp170:2as a bubble
dhp170:3or a mirage,
dhp170:4then the King of Death won’t see you.
dhp171:1Come, see this world decked out
dhp171:2like a fancy royal chariot.
dhp171:3Here fools founder,
dhp171:4but the discerning are not chained.
dhp172:1He who once was heedless,
dhp172:2but turned to heedfulness,
dhp172:3shines upon this world
dhp172:4like the moon freed from clouds.
dhp173:1Someone whose bad deed
dhp173:2is supplanted by the good,
dhp173:3shines upon this world,
dhp173:4like the moon freed from clouds.
dhp174:1Blind is the world,
dhp174:2few are those who clearly see.
dhp174:3Only a handful go to heaven,
dhp174:4like a bird freed from a net.
dhp175:1Swans fly by the sun’s path,
dhp175:2psychic sages fly through space.
dhp175:3The attentive leave the world,
dhp175:4having vanquished Māra with his legions.
dhp176:1When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
dhp176:2transgresses in just one thing—
dhp176:3lying—
dhp176:4there is no evil they would not do.
dhp177:1The miserly don’t ascend to heaven,
dhp177:2it takes a fool to not praise giving.
dhp177:3The attentive celebrate giving,
dhp177:4and so find happiness in the hereafter.
dhp178:1The fruit of stream-entry is better
dhp178:2than being the one king of the earth,
dhp178:3than going to heaven,
dhp178:4than lordship over all the world.