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Dhammatthavagga: The Judge

Dhammatthavagga

Summary:

Dhp XIX PTS: Dhp 256-272

Dhammatthavagga: The Judge

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Alternate translation: Buddharakkhita | Daw Mya Tin | Ven. Varado

Alternate format: dhammapada_en.pdf (??pages/0.8MB)

256-257

(Cross-reference: 256-257)

To pass judgment hurriedly doesn't mean you're a judge. The wise one, weighing both the right judgment & wrong, judges others impartially — unhurriedly, in line with the Dhamma, guarding the Dhamma, guarded by Dhamma, intelligent: he's called a judge.

258-259

(Cross-reference: 258-259)

Simply talking a lot doesn't mean one is wise. Whoever's secure — no hostility, fear — is said to be wise. Simply talking a lot doesn't maintain the Dhamma. Whoever — although he's heard next to nothing — sees Dhamma through his body, is not heedless of Dhamma: he's one who maintains the Dhamma.

260-261

A head of gray hairs doesn't mean one's an elder. Advanced in years, one's called an old fool. But one in whom there is truth, restraint, rectitude, gentleness, self-control — he's called an elder, his impurities disgorged, enlightened.

262-263

Not by suave conversation or lotus-like coloring does an envious, miserly cheat become an exemplary man. But one in whom this is cut through up- rooted wiped out — he's called exemplary, his aversion disgorged, intelligent.

264-265

(Cross-reference: 264-265)

A shaven head doesn't mean a contemplative. The liar observing no duties, filled with greed & desire: what kind of contemplative's he? But whoever tunes out the dissonance of his evil qualities — large or small — in every way by bringing evil to consonance: he's called a contemplative.

266-267

Begging from others doesn't mean one's a monk. As long as one follows householders' ways, one is no monk at all. But whoever puts aside both merit & evil and, living the chaste life, judiciously goes through the world: he's called a monk.

268-269

(Cross-reference: 268-269)

Not by silence does someone confused & unknowing turn into a sage. But whoever — wise, as if holding the scales, taking the excellent — rejects evil deeds: he is a sage, that's how he's a sage. Whoever can weigh both sides of the world: that's how he's called a sage.

270

Not by harming life does one become noble. One is termed noble for being gentle to all living things.

271-272

(Cross-reference: 271-272)

Monk, don't on account of your precepts & practices, great erudition, concentration attainments, secluded dwelling, or the thought, 'I touch the renunciate ease that run-of-the-mill people don't know': ever let yourself get complacent when the ending of effluents is still unattained.


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en/tipitaka/sut/kn/dhp/dhp.19.than.txt · Last modified: 2023/02/06 05:07 by Johann