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====== Balavagga: Fools ======
<span hide>Balavagga</span>

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<div #h_tipitakaid>Dhp V <span h_ptsid>PTS: [[:en:tipitaka:sltp:Dhp_utf8#v.60|Dhp 60-75]]</span>

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<div #h_doctitle>Balavagga: Fools</div>

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<div #h_docby>translated from the Pali by</div>

<div #h_docauthor>Thanissaro Bhikkhu</div>

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<div #h_docalttrans>Alternate translation: [[en:tipitaka:sut:kn:dhp:dhp.05.budd|Buddharakkhita]] | [[dhp.05.bpit|Daw Mya Tin]] | [[sut.kn.dhp.05_vara|Ven. Varado]]</div>

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=== 60 ===
<span anchor #dhp-60></span>

<div freeverse>![
Long for the wakeful is the night.
Long for the weary, a league.
For fools
unaware of True Dhamma,
	           samsara
is long.
]!</div>

=== 61 ===
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<div freeverse>![
If, in your course, you don't meet
your equal, your better,
then continue your course,
	firmly,
	   alone.
There's no fellowship with fools.
]!</div>

=== 62 ===
<span anchor #dhp-62></span>

<div freeverse>![
'I have sons, I have wealth' —
the fool torments himself.
When even he himself
doesn't belong to himself,
	how then sons?
	How wealth?
]!</div>

=== 63 ===
<span anchor #dhp-63></span>

<div freeverse>![
A fool with a sense of his foolishness
is — at least to that extent — wise.
But a fool who thinks himself wise
really deserves to be called
	a fool.
]!</div>

=== 64-65 ===
<span anchor #dhp-64></span>

<div freeverse>![
Even if for a lifetime
the fool stays with the wise,
he knows nothing of the Dhamma —
	as the ladle,
	the taste of the soup.

<span anchor #dhp-65>Even if for a moment,</span>
the perceptive person stays with the wise,
he immediately knows the Dhamma —
	as the tongue,
	the taste of the soup.]!
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=== 66 ===
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<div freeverse>![
Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
	bitter fruit.
]!</div>

=== 67-68 ===
<span anchor #dhp-67></span>

<div freeverse>![
It's not good,
the doing of the deed
that, once it's done,
you regret,
whose result you reap crying,
your face in tears.

<span anchor #dhp-68>It's good,</span>
the doing of the deed
that, once it's done,
you don't regret,
whose result you reap gratified,
	happy at heart.]!
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=== 69 ===
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<div freeverse>![
As long as evil has yet to ripen,
the fool mistakes it for honey.
But when that evil ripens,
the fool falls into
	               pain.
]!</div>

=== 70 ===
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<div freeverse>![
Month after month
the fool might eat
only a tip-of-grass measure of food,
but he wouldn't be worth
	one sixteenth
of those who've fathomed
the Dhamma.
]!</div>

=== 71 ===
(Cross-reference: [[dhp.intro.than#fn-71|71]])
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<div freeverse>![
An evil deed, when done,
doesn't — like ready milk —
come out right away.
It follows the fool,
	   smoldering
like a fire
hidden in ashes.
]!</div>

=== 72-74 ===
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<div freeverse>![
Only for his ruin
does renown come to the fool.
It ravages his bright fortune
& rips his head     apart.

<span anchor #dhp-73>He would want unwarranted status,</span>
preeminence     among monks,
authority       among monasteries,
homage      from lay families.

<span anchor #dhp-74></span>'Let householders & those gone forth
both think that this
was done by me alone.
May I alone determine
what's a duty, what's not':
	the resolve of a fool
	as they grow —
	   his desire & pride.]!
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=== 75 ===
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<div freeverse>![
The path to material gain
	goes one way,
the way to Unbinding,
	another.
Realizing this, the monk,
a disciple to the Awakened One,
should not relish offerings,
should cultivate        seclusion
	   instead.
]!</div>

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