Daily Words of the Buddha

Yāvajīvampi ce bālo, paṇḍitaṃ payirupāsati, Na so dhammaṃ vijānāti dabbī sūparasaṃ yathā. Listen Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person, one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup. Dhammapada 5.64 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

Uṭṭhānenappamādena, saṃyamena damena ca, dīpaṃ kayirātha medhāvī yaṃ ogho nābhikīrati. Listen By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for oneself an island which no flood can overwhelm. Dhammapada 2.25 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

Sabhaggato vā parisaggato vā ekassa veko na musā bhaṇeyya. Na bhāṇaye bhaṇataṃ nānujaññā. Sabbaṃ abhūtaṃ parivajjayeyya. Listen Having entered a royal court or a company of people one should not speak lies. One should not speak lies (oneself) nor incite others to do so. One should completely avoid falsehood. Sutta Nipāta 2.399 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

Appamādo amatapadaṃ. Pamādo maccuno padaṃ. Appamattā na mīyanti. Ye pamattā yathā matā. Listen Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already. Dhammapada 2.21 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

Uṭṭhahatha! nisīdatha! Daḷhaṃ sikkhatha santiyā. Mā vo pamatte viññāya, maccurājā amohayittha vasānuge. Listen Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless, lead you astray and dominate you. Sutta Nipāta 2.334 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

Appampi ce saṃhita bhāsamāno, dhammassa hoti anudhammacārī, rāgañca, dosañca, pahāya mohaṃ, sammappajāno suvimuttacitto, anupādiyāno idha vā huraṃ vā, sa bhāgavā sāmaññassa hoti. Listen Little though one recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world -- one indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life. Dhammapada 1.20 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

Sukhā virāgatā loke, Kāmānaṃ samatikkamo; Asmimānassa yo vinayo -- etaṃ ve paramaṃ sukhaṃ. Listen Blissful is passionlessness in the world, The overcoming of sensual desires; But the abolition of the conceit I am -- That is truly the supreme bliss. Udāna 2.11 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

Bahumpi ce saṃhita bhāsamāno, na takkaro hoti naro pamatto, gopova gāvo gaṇayaṃ paresaṃ, na bhāgavā sāmaññassa hoti. Listen Much though one recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless one is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others -- one does not partake of the blessings of the holy life. Dhammapada 1.19 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

Idha modati pecca modati; katapuñño ubhayattha modati. So modati so pamodati, disvā kammavisuddhimattano. Listen The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; one rejoices in both the worlds. One rejoices and exults, recollecting one's own pure deeds. Dhammapada 1.16 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

Pāṇaṃ na hane na ca ghātayeyya, na cānujaññā hanataṃ paresaṃ, sabbesu bhūtesu nidhāya daṇḍaṃ. Ye thāvarā ye ca tasā santi loke. Listen One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world. Sutta Nipāta 2.396 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

Idha socati pecca socati; pāpakārī ubhayattha socati. So socati so vihaññati, disvā kammakiliṭṭhamattano. Listen The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; one grieves in both the worlds. One laments and is afflicted, recollecting one's own impure deeds. Dhammapada 1.15 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

Yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā Ātāpino jhāyato brāhmaṇassa, Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti sabbā Yato pajānāti sahetudhammaṃ. Listen When things become manifest To the ardent meditating brahmin, All one's doubts then vanish since one understands Each thing along with its cause. Udāna 1.1 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

Yathā agāraṃ ducchannaṃ vuṭṭhī samativijjhati, evaṃ abhāvitaṃ cittaṃ rāgo samativijjhati. Listen Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. Dhammapada 1.13 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

Asāre sāramatino sāre cāsāradassino, te sāraṃ nādhigacchanti, micchāsaṅkappagocarā. Listen Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. Dhammapada 1.11 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

Atītaṃ nānusocanti, nappajappanti nāgataṃ, paccuppannena yāpenti, tena vaṇṇo pasīdati. Listen They do not lament over the past, they yearn not for what is to come, they maintain themselves in the present, thus their complexion is serene. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.10 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika 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