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THE BUDDHIST WAY OF LIFE
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intoxicating liquors, he even in this world, digs up his own grave.
O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time.
The world gives according to its faith or according to its pleasure ; if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others, he will find no rest either by day or by night.
He in whom that feeling is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, finds rest by day and by night.
There is no fire like passion, there is no torrent like greed.
The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour’s faults like chaff but his own faults he hides, as a cheat hides the bad dice from the player.
If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to be offended, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the destruction of passions.
Refrain from all evil; cultivate the good ; cleanse your own thoughts; this is the teaching of the Buddha.
§ 6. On Self and Self-Conquest
If one has self, let him practise self-conquest.
This is the Buddhist Way of Life.
Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord ? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.
The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (arahat), of the elect (ariya), of the virtuous and follows a false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.
By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. The pure and the impure (stand and fall) by themselves, no one can purify another.
He who loves looking for pleasures only, his
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