Dhp XII : Self

- 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 XII : Self ## Browse Suttas Go to Dhammapada index Dhp index ## Dhp XII : Self If you hold yourself dear then guard, guard yourself well. The wise person would stay awake nursing himself in any of the three watches of the night, the three stages of life. 157* First heâd settle himself in what is correct, only then teach others. He wouldnât stain his name : he is wise. 158 If youâd mold yourself the way you teach others, then, well-trained, go ahead & tame– for, as they say, whatâs hard to tame is you yourself. 159 Your own self is your own mainstay, for who else could your mainstay be? With you yourself well-trained you obtain the mainstay hard to obtain. 160 The evil he himself has done –self-born, self-created– grinds down the dullard, as a diamond, a precious stone. 161 When overspread by extreme vice– like a sal tree by a vine– you do to yourself what an enemy would wish. 162* Theyâre easy to do– things of no good & no use to yourself. Whatâs truly useful & good is truly harder than hard to do. 163 The teaching of those who live the Dhamma, worthy ones, noble: whoever maligns it –a dullard, inspired by evil view– bears fruit for his own destruction, like the fruiting of the bamboo. 164* Evil is done by oneself, by oneself is one defiled. Evil is left undone by oneself, by oneself is one cleansed. Purity & impurity are oneâs own doing. No one purifies another. No other purifies one. 165* Donât sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that. 166* - --> - - - -