Dhp I : Pairs

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('â', He       insulted me, hit me, beat me, robbed meâ –for those who brood on this, hostility isnât stilled. ),

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('â', He insulted me, hit me, beat me, robbed meâ– for those who donât brood on this, hostility is stilled. Hostilities arenât stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth. Unlike those who donât realize that weâre here on the verge of perishing, those who do: their quarrels are stilled. 3-6 One who stays focused on the beautiful, is unrestrained with the senses, knowing no moderation in food, apathetic, unenergetic: Mara overcomes him as the wind, a weak tree. One who stays focused on the foul, is restrained with regard to the senses, knowing moderation in food, full of conviction & energy: Mara does not overcome him as the wind, a mountain of rock. 7-8* He who, depraved, devoid of truthfulness & self-control, puts on the ochre robe, doesnât deserve the ochre robe. But he who is free of depravity endowed with truthfulness & self-control, well-established in the precepts, truly deserves the ochre robe. 9-10 Those who regard non-essence as essence and see essence as non-, donât get to the essence, ranging about in wrong resolves. But those who know essence as essence, and non-essence as non-, get to the essence, ranging about in right resolves. 11-12* As rain seeps into an ill-thatched hut, so passion, the undeveloped mind. As rain doesnât seep into a well-thatched hut, so passion does not, the well-developed mind. 13-14 Here he grieves he grieves hereafter. In both worlds the wrong-doer grieves. He grieves, heâs afflicted, seeing the corruption of his deeds. Here he rejoices he rejoices hereafter. In both worlds the merit-maker rejoices. He rejoices, is jubilant, seeing the purity of his deeds. Here heâs tormented heâs tormented hereafter. In both worlds the wrong-doerâs tormented. Heâs tormented at the thought, ),

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('â', Iâve done wrong.â Having gone to a bad destination, heâs tormented all the more. Here he delights he delights hereafter. In both worlds the merit-maker delights. He delights at the thought, ),

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('â', Iâve made merit.â Having gone to a good destination, he delights all the more. 15-18* If he recites many teachings, but –heedless man– doesnât do what they say, like a cowherd counting the cattle of others, he has no share in the contemplative life. If he recites next to nothing but follows the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma; abandoning passion, aversion, delusion; alert, his mind well released, not clinging either here or hereafter: he has his share in the contemplative life. 19-20 - --> - - - -