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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Praise and Blame, The Dhammapada

Speak the truth; yield not to anger; if asked, give even a little. By these three steps a man reaches the presence of the gods.

The sages who injure none, and who always control their body attain the changeless state; therein is no grief. All taints disappear when a man is vigilant, studious day and night, and strives after Nirvana.

This is an old saying, O Atula; it is not of this day only. "They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who talks much, they blame him who speaks moderately in measured terms." There is not any one in the world who is not blamed.

There never was, nor will be, nor is there now to be found any one who stands wholly praised or utterly condemned.

But the man whom the discerning always praise, because he is without blemish, wise, endowed with both knowledge and virtue, who would dare to blame such a one? He is like a coin of gold from the Jambu river. Even the gods praise him, even by Brahma he is praised.

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