Daily Words of the Buddha

Pahūtavitto puriso sahirañño sabhojano, eko bhuñjati sādūni -- taṃ parābhavato mukhaṃ. Listen To have much wealth and ample gold and food, but to enjoy one's luxuries alone -- this is a cause of one's downfall. Sutta Nipāta 1.102 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Everyman's Ethics: Four Discourses by the Buddha (WH 14), translated by Narada Thera Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Evaṃ bho purisa jānāhi: pāpadhammā asaññatā. Mā taṃ lobho adhammo ca ciraṃ dukkhāya randhayuṃ. Listen Know this, O good one: evil things are difficult to control. Let not greed and wickedness drag you to protracted misery. Dhammapada 18.248 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Yo pāṇamatipāteti, musāvādañca bhāsati, loke adinnamādiyati, paradārañca gacchati, surāmerayapānañca yo naro anuyuñjati -- idhevameso lokasmiṃ, mūlaṃ khaṇati attano. Listen One who destroys life, utters lies, takes what is not given, goes to another man's wife, and is addicted to intoxicating drinks -- such a man digs up one's own root even in this world. Dhammapada 18.246, 18.247 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Hirīmatā ca dujjīvaṃ niccaṃ sucigavesinā, alīnenāppagabbhena, suddhājīvena passatā. Listen Difficult is life for the modest one who always seeks purity, is detached and unassuming, clean in life, and discerning. Dhammapada 18.245 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Ayasāva malaṃ samuṭṭhitaṃ tatuṭṭhāya tameva khādati, evaṃ atidhonacārinaṃ sāni kammāni nayanti duggatiṃ. Listen Just as rust arising from iron eats away the base from which it arises, even so, their own deeds lead transgressors to states of woe. Dhammapada 18.240 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Acchecchi vaṭṭaṃ, byagā nirāsaṃ. Visukkhā saritā na sandati. Chinnaṃ vaṭṭaṃ na vattati. Esevanto dukkhassā. Listen One has broken the cycle, attained freedom from desire. The dried-up stream no longer flows. The cycle, broken, no longer turns. This, just this, is the end of misery. Udāna 7.62 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Kodhaṃ jahe vippajaheyya mānaṃ, saṃyojanaṃ sabbamatikkameyya. Taṃ nāmarūpasmimasajjamānaṃ akiñcanaṃ nānupatanti dukkhā. Listen One should give up anger, renounce pride, and overcome all fetters. Suffering never befalls one who clings not to mind and body and is detached. Dhammapada 17.221 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Dhamme ca ye ariyapavedite ratā anuttarā te vacasā, manasā kammunā ca. Te santisoraccasamādhisaṇṭhitā, sutassa paññāya ca sāramajjhagū. Listen Those who are devoted to the Dhamma made known by the Noble Ones are unsurpassed in speech, thought and action. They are established in peace, gentleness and concentration, and have reached the essence of learning and wisdom. Sutta Nipāta 3.332 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipāta, translated by John D. Ireland Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Susukhaṃ vata jīvāma, verinesu averino. Verinesu manussesu, viharāma averino. Listen Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostility. Amidst hostile people we dwell free from hatred. Dhammapada 15.197 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Imesu kira sajjanti, Eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā; Viggayha naṃ vivadanti Janā ekaṅgadassino. Listen Some recluses and brahmins, so called, Are deeply attached to their own views; People who only see one side of things Engage in quarrels and disputes. Udāna 6.54 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Udāna and the Itivuttaka, trans. John D. Ireland Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Sukarāni asādhūni, attano ahitāni ca. Yaṃ ve hitañca sādhuñca, taṃ ve paramadukkaraṃ. Listen Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. Dhammapada 12.163 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Attānaṃ ce tathā kayirā; yathāññamanusāsati, sudanto vata dametha. Attā hi kira duddamo. Listen One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self-control. Dhammapada 12.159 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Kalyāṇamitto yo bhikkhu, sappatisso sagāravo; Karaṃ mittānaṃ vacanaṃ, sampajāno patissato; Pāpuṇe anupubbena, sabbasaṃyojanakkhayaṃ. Listen When a bhikkhu has good friends, and is reverential and respectful; Doing what one's friends advise, clearly comprehending and mindful; One may progressively attain the destruction of all fetters. Itivuttaka 1.17 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Udāna and the Itivuttaka, trans. John D. Ireland Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Ye dhammā hetuppabhavā, tesaṃ hetuṃ Tathāgato āha tesañca yo nirodho; evaṃvādī Mahāsamaṇo. Listen Those phenomena arising from a cause, of these the Enlightened One has told the cause and also their cessation; this is the "doctrine" of the Great Recluse. Vinaya 3.60 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Anekajātisaṃsāraṃ sandhāvissaṃ, anibbisaṃ gahakāraṃ gavesanto; dukkhā jāti punappunaṃ. Gahakāraka! Diṭṭhosi. Puna gehaṃ na kāhasi. Sabbā te phāsukā bhaggā, gahakūṭaṃ visaṅkhataṃ. Visaṅkhāragataṃ cittaṃ: taṇhānaṃ khayamajjhagā. Listen Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached. Dhammapada 11.153, 11.154 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx