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Dhammapada

Dhp 354 From… Taṇhā Vagga: Craving

Hand of the Buddha with the palm open

The gift of Dhamma surpasses all gifts.
The taste of Dhamma surpasses all taste.
The delight in Dhamma surpasses all delights.
The destruction of cravings conquers all suffering.

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Dhp 177 From… Loka Vagga: The World

Person putting food in Buddhist monastic's bowl.

Truly, misers never go to heaven.
Fools, indeed, never praise generosity.
But the wise rejoice in generosity,
and so find happiness hereafter.

Read the entire translation of Dhammapada 13 Loka Vagga: The World (167-178) by Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnananda Thero on SuttaFriends.org. Or read a different translation on SuttaCentral.net, DhammaTalks.org, Ancient-Buddhist-Texts.net or AccessToInsight.org. Or listen on SC-Voice.net. Or explore the Pali on DigitalPaliReader.online.

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Dhp 21–22 From… Appamādavagga: Heedfulness

Giant stone Buddha statue.

21. Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already.

22. Clearly understanding this excellence of heedfulness, the wise exult therein and enjoy the resort of the Noble Ones.


The Deathless (amata) is a synonymy for nibbāna.

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Dhp 129 From… Dandavagga: Violence

Person pulling gun out of their belt.

All tremble at violence;
all fear death.
Putting oneself in the place of another,
one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

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Dhp 287 From… Maggavagga: The Path

Flooded city.

As a great flood carries away a sleeping village,
so death seizes and carries away
the man with a clinging mind,
doting on his children and cattle.

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Dhp 135 From… Daṇḍavagga: The Rod

Man with cows.

As a cowherd drives the cows
to pasture with the rod,
so too old age and death
drive life from living beings.

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Dhp 41 From… Cittavaggo: The Mind

Wood scraps.

Before long has passed by, alas,
this body will lie on the ground,
rejected, without consciousness,
just like a useless piece of wood.

Aciraṁ vatayaṁ kāyo,
pathaviṁ adhisessati;
Chuddho apetaviññāṇo,
niratthaṁva kaliṅgaraṁ.


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Dhp 5 From… Yamaka Vagga: Pairs

Standing golden Buddha.

5. Hatred never ends through hatred;
by non-hatred alone does it end.
This is an eternal law in this world.

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Dhp 368 From… Bhikkhuvagga: The Monk

Buddhist monastic looking at a mountain.

The monk who abides in universal love
and is deeply devoted to the Teaching of the Buddha
attains the peace of Nibbana,
the bliss of the cessation of all conditioned things.

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Dhp 392 From… Brāhmaṇa Vagga: The True Brahmin—Revering the Teacher

Person holding a bowl full of fire.

392. Just as a brahmin worships a fire ritual, so does the grateful person respectfully worship his teacher from whom he learnt the Dhamma that was taught by the fully enlightened Buddha.

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Dhp 100–103 From Sahassavagga: Thousands

Abstract photo of many open books.

     Better
than if there were thousands
of meaningless words is
     one
     meaningful
     word
that on hearing
brings peace.

     Better
than if there were thousands
of meaningless verses is
     one
     meaningful
     line of verse
that on hearing
brings peace.

And better than chanting hundreds
of meaningless verses is
     one
     Dhamma-saying
that on hearing
brings peace.

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Dhp 153–154 From… Jarā Vagga: Old Age

Open rafters in a roof.

153. Through many births, in this journey of misery, I have wandered on and on, searching for the builder of this house of suffering. To be born again and again is indeed suffering!

154. Oh house-builder, you are seen! You will not build a house for me again. All the rafters are broken into pieces and the ridgepole is shattered. My mind has reached the unconditioned. I have attained the destruction of craving.

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Dhp 252-253 From… Malavagga: Impurity

People winnowing rice.
  1. Easily seen is the fault of others, but one’s own fault is difficult to see. Like chaff one winnows another’s faults, but hides one’s own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham branches.
  2. He who seeks another’s faults, who is ever censorious — his cankers grow. He is far from destruction of the cankers.

Note: Here “cankers” is the translation of āsava, also translated as taints or defilements.

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Dhp 188–192 From… Buddhavaggo: The Chapter about the Buddha

Stone Buddha head.

188. Many people shaken
by fear go for refuge
to woods, mountains, and to
tree shrines in pleasure parks.

189. That is not a secure refuge,
that is not the refuge supreme,
that is not the refuge that will
liberate from all suffering.

190. Whoever has gone for refuge
to the Buddha, to the Dhamma
and to the Saṅgha, who sees with
right wisdom the four noble truths:

191. Suffering, arising, and the
overcoming of suffering,
the eightfold noble path leading
to the stilling of suffering.

192. That is the one secure refuge,
that is the one refuge supreme,
that is the one refuge that will
liberate from all suffering.

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Dhp 165 From… Attavagga: The Self

Large ornate Buddha hall.
  1. By oneself is evil done;
    by oneself is one defiled.
    By oneself is evil left undone;
    by oneself is one made pure.
    Purity and impurity depend on oneself;
    no one can purify another.

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Dhp 327–329 From… Nāgavagga: Elephants

Lone tusker elephant.

Delight in diligence!
Take good care of your mind!
Pull yourself out of this pit,
like an elephant sunk in a bog.

If you find an alert companion,
an attentive friend to live happily together,
then, overcoming all adversities,
wander with them, joyful and mindful.

If you find no alert companion,
no attentive friend to live happily together,
then, like a king who flees his conquered realm,
wander alone like a tusker in the wilds.

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Dhp 51–52 From… Pupphavagga: Flowers

Someone smelling pink roses.

51. Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them.

52. Like a beautiful flower full of color and also fragrant, even so, fruitful are the fair words of one who practices them.

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Dhp 112–115 From… Sahassavagga: The Thousands

Gold stupa with red flags.

Better to live a single day
energetic and strong,
than to live a hundred years
lazy and lacking energy.

Better to live a single day
seeing rise and fall
than to live a hundred years
blind to rise and fall.

Better to live a single day
seeing the state free of death
than to live a hundred years
blind to the state free of death.

Better to live a single day
seeing the supreme teaching
than to live a hundred years
blind to the supreme teaching.

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Dhp 224 From Kodhavagga: Anger

Hands offering a few flowers.

Speak the truth;
yield not to anger;
when asked, give
even if you only have a little.
By these three means
can one reach the presence of the gods.

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Dhp 210–213 From… Piyavagga: The Beloved

Baby baboon holding on to adult.

Don’t ever get too close
to those you like or dislike.
For not seeing the liked is suffering,
and so is seeing the disliked.

Therefore don’t hold anything dear,
for it’s bad to lose those you love.
No ties are found in they who
hold nothing loved or loathed.

Sorrow springs from what we hold dear,
fear springs from what we hold dear;
one free from holding anything dear
has no sorrow, let alone fear.

Sorrow springs from attachment,
fear springs from attachment;
one free from attachment
has no sorrow, let alone fear.

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Dhp 249 From… Mala Vagga: Stain

Person putting food in monastic's bowl.

249. People give according to their faith and confident mind.
This being the case, if one becomes discontented
with the food and drink given by others,
one cannot attain stillness of mind,
either by day or by night.

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Dhp 37 From … Citta Vagga: The Mind

Lotus pond with person in white in the background.

If one’s mind is not firm in the Dhamma practice,
if he does not know true Dhamma,
and if his faith wavers,
his wisdom never matures.

Read the entire translation of Dhammapada 3 Citta Vagga: The Mind (33-43) by Ven.Kiribathgoda Gnananda Thero on SuttaFriends.org. Or read a different translation on SuttaCentral.net, DhammaTalks.org, Ancient-Buddhist-Texts.net or AccessToInsight.org. Or listen on SC-Voice.net. Or explore the Pali on DigitalPaliReader.online.

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Dhp 333 From… Nāgavagga: Attadantavatthu

Old person offering incense.

It’s a blessing to keep precepts until you grow old;
a blessing to be grounded in faith;
the getting of wisdom’s a blessing;
and it’s a blessing to avoid doing wrong.

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Dhp 337 From… Taṇhāvagga

Crushed grass on a lake.

I say this to you, good people,
all those who have gathered here:
dig up the root of craving,
as you’d dig up grass in search of roots.
Don’t let Māra break you again and again,
like a stream breaking a reed.

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Dhp 7 From… Yamaka Vagga: Pairs

Tree blown down by storm.

7. Whoever lives focused on pleasant things, with their sense faculties unguarded, immoderate in eating, lazy and sluggish, will be overpowered by Māra, just as a storm throws down a weak tree.

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Dhp 127 From… Pāpa Vagga: Evil

View from mountain cave.
  1. You will not find a place in the world—not in the sky, not in the middle of the ocean, not inside a mountain cave—where you can escape from the results of your evil deeds.

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Dhp 1–2 From… Yamakavagga: Pairs

Three human shadows on a forest road.
  1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
  2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

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Dhp 71 From… Bālavagga:

Charcoal burning under ashes.

For a wicked deed that has been done
does not spoil quickly like milk.
Smoldering, it follows the fool,
like a fire smothered over with ash.

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Dhp 353 From… Tanhavagga: Craving

Pail, giant Buddha head in a dark hall.

[Note: This verse was spoken by the Buddha. See also this selection from MN 26.]

A victor am I over all, all have I known. Yet unattached am I to all that is conquered and known. Abandoning all, I am freed through the destruction of craving. Having thus directly comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher?

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Dhp 217 From … Piya Vagga: The Dear

Crowd of lay people taking photos of Buddhist monastics.

People hold dear him who embodies virtue and insight,
who is principled, has realized the truth,
and who himself does what he ought to be doing.

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Dhp 54–56 From… Pupphavagga: Blossoms

Lotus flower

No flower’s scent
goes against the wind–
     not sandalwood,
          jasmine,
          tagara.

But the scent of the good
does go against the wind.
The person of integrity
wafts a scent
in every direction.

Sandalwood, tagara,
lotus, & jasmine:
     among these scents,
     the scent of virtue
     is unsurpassed.

Next to nothing, this scent
–sandalwood, tagara–
while the scent of virtuous conduct
wafts to the devas,
     supreme.

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