The Buddhist Way of Life : On On anger and enmity

4. On anger and enmity

 

• Cherish no anger. Forget your enmities. Win your enemies by love.
• This is the Buddhist Way of Life.. 
• The fire of anger should be stilled. 
• One who harbours the thought : " He reviled me, maltreated me, overpowered me, robbed me," in him anger is never stilled." 
• He who harbours not such a thought, in him anger is stilled. 
• Enemy works evil to enemy, hater to hater, but whose is the evil. 
• Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good ; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth. 
• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger ; give, if thou art asked for little.
• Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage ; no sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
• He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver, other people are but holding the reins. II. Conquest begets enmity; the conquered lie down in distress. The tranquillised lies down in happiness, dismissing alike victory and defeat. 
• There is no fire like lust, no ill-fortune like hatred. There is no misery like the constituents of existence, no happiness higher than the Peace of Nibbana. 
• For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time : hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.