Dhp X : The Rod

- suttas - - evening talks - short morning talks - lectures - guided meditations - talk collections - other themes - chants - - - - à¹à¸à¸¢ - Franā§ais - Espaā±ol - - Portuguāªs - РÑÑÑкий - - - УкÑаÑнÑÑка Submit Search - Home - Suttas - KN - Dhp - Dhp X : The Rod ## Browse Suttas Go to Dhammapada index Dhp index ## Dhp X : The Rod All tremble at the rod, all are fearful of death. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. All tremble at the rod, all hold their life dear. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. 129-130 Whoever takes a rod to harm living beings desiring ease, when he himself is looking for ease, meets with no ease after death. Whoever doesnât take a rod to harm living beings desiring ease, when he himself is looking for ease, meets with ease after death. 131-132 Speak harshly to no one, or the words will be thrown right back at you. Contentious talk is painful, for you get struck by rods in return. If, like a flattened metal pot you donât resound, youâve attained an Unbinding; in you thereâs found no contention. 133-134 As a cowherd with a rod drives cows to the field, so aging & death drive the life of living beings. 135 When doing evil deeds, the fool is oblivious. The dullard is tormented by his own deeds, as if burned by a fire. 136 Whoever, with a rod, harasses an innocent man, unarmed, quickly falls into any of ten things: harsh pains, devastation, a broken body, grave illness, mental derangement, trouble with the government, violent slander, relatives lost, property dissolved, houses burned down. At the break-up of the body this one with no discernment, reappears in hell. 137-140 Neither nakedness nor matted hair nor mud nor the refusal of food nor sleeping on the bare ground nor dust & dirt nor squatting austerities cleanses the mortal whoâs not gone beyond doubt. If, though adorned, one lives in tune with the chaste life –calmed, tamed, & assured– having put down the rod toward all beings, heâs a contemplative a brahman a monk. 141-142 Who in the world is a man constrained by conscience, who awakens      to censure like a fine stallion      to the whip? 143* Like a fine stallion struck with a whip, be ardent & chastened. Through conviction virtue, persistence, concentration, judgment, consummate in knowledge & conduct, mindful, youâll abandon this not-insignificant pain. 144 Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. Those of good practices control themselves. 145 - --> - - - -