TEACHINGS OF LORD BUDDHA! ( TRANSLATION FROM PALI )

DHAMMAPADA

1. Pairs

 

19.  Much though he recites the sacred facts, but act not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others — he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life. 

 

20.  Little though he recites the sacred texts, but put the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world — he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life.  

 

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