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.
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2. Mind precedes all mental states.
Mind is their chief;
they are all mind-wrought.
If with a pure mind
a person speaks or act,
happiness follows him
likes his never-departing shadow.
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3. '' He abused me,
he struck me,
he overpowered me,
hen robbed me.''
Those who harbour such thoghts
do not still their hatred.
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4. ''He abused me,
he struck me,
he overpowered me,
he robbed me.''
Thoes who do not harbour such thoughts
still their hatred.
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5. Hatred is never appeased
by hatred in the world.
By non-hatred alone
is hatred appeased.
This is a Law Eternal.
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6. There are those
who do not realize
that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this
settle their quarreles.
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7. Just as a storm
throws down a week tree,
so does Mara2 overpowered the man
who lives for the pursuit of pleasures,
who is uncontrolled in his senses,
immoderate in eating,
indolent and dissipated.
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