The Way To Humanity : Buddhist way of life
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 senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle and weak, will certainly be overthrown by his own overdoing as the wind throws down a weak tree.
- He who lives without looking for pleasures, his senses well controlled, moderate in his food, faithful and strong, he will not be overthrown any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.
- If to himself a man is dear, let him keep close watch upon himself.
- First establish thyself in the right then thou mayest counsel others. Let not the wise man give occasion for reproach.
- Oneself, they say is hard to control. If one shapes oneself according as one counsels others, thus well controlled one will have control over others. II. A man pays in himself for the evil he has done and in himself is purified. The good and evil are purified severally, no one purifies another.
- Though one should conquer in battle thousands and thousands of men, who shall conquer himself, he is the greatest of warriors.
- First establish thyself in the right, then thou mayest counsel others. Let not the wise man give occasion for reproach.
- If one shapes oneself according as one counsels others, thus well controlled, one will have control over others. Oneself they say, is hard to control.
- Verily oneself is the guardian of oneself. What other guardian should there be. Guarded by oneself, one gets a guardian the like of which is not likely gotten.
- If to himself a man is dear, let him keep close watch upon himself.
- A man pays in himself for the evil he has done, and in himself is purified. The good and evil are purified severally, no one purifies another.
- Verily oneself is the guardian of oneself; what other guardian should there be? Guarded by oneself, one gets a guardian the like of which is not easily gotten.
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