Daily Words of the Buddha

Māvoca pharusaṃ kañci, vuttā paṭivadeyyu taṃ. Dukkhā hi sārambhakathā, paṭidaṇḍā phuseyyu taṃ. Listen Speak not harshly to anyone, for those thus spoken to might retort. Indeed, angry speech hurts, and retaliation may overtake you. Dhammapada 10.133 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita 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

Mātā yathā niyaṃ puttamāyusā ekaputtamanurakkhe, evampi sabbabhūtesu mānasaṃ bhāvaye aparimāṇaṃ. Listen As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings. Sutta Nipāta 1.149 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu 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

Adhicetaso appamajjato, munino monapathesu sikkhato: Sokā na bhavanti tādino, upasantassa sadā satīmato. Listen Exalted in mind & heedful, the sage trained in sagacity's ways: One has no sorrows, one who is Such, calmed & ever mindful. Udāna 4.37 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu 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

Gataddhino visokassa vippamuttassa sabbadhi, sabbaganthappahīnassa, pariḷāho na vijjati. Listen The fever of passion exists not for one who has completed the journey, who is sorrowless and wholly set free, and has broken all ties. Dhammapada 7.90 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita 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

Yato yato sammasati khandhānaṃ udayabbayaṃ, labhatī pītipāmojjaṃ, amataṃ taṃ vijānataṃ. Listen Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, [which lead on to] the deathless stage experienced by the wise. Dhammapada 25.374 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

Khīṇaṃ purāṇaṃ nava natthi sambhavaṃ, virattacittāyatike bhavasmiṃ. Te khīṇabījā, avirūḷhichandā. Nibbanti dhīrā yathāyaṃ padīpo. Listen When past conditioning is released and no fresh one produced, the mind no longer seeks for future birth. The seed consumed, cravings no more arise. Such-minded wise ones cease like [the flame of] this lamp. Sutta Nipāta 2.238 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

Idha tappati, pecca tappati, pāpakārī ubhayattha tappati. "Pāpaṃ me katan"ti tappati, bhiyyo tappati, duggatiṃ gato. Idha nandati, pecca nandati, katapuñño ubhayattha nandati. "Puññaṃ me katan"ti nandati, bhiyyo nandati, suggatiṃ gato. Listen Agony now, agony hereafter, the wrong-doer suffers agony in both worlds. Agonized now by the knowledge that one has done wrong, one suffers more agony, gone to a state of woe. Rejoicing now, rejoicing hereafter, the doer of wholesome actions rejoices in both worlds. Rejoicing now in the knowledge that one has acted rightly, one rejoices more, gone to a state of bliss. Dhammapada 1.17, 1.18 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

Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā. Manasā ce paduṭṭhena bhāsati vā karoti vā, tato naṃ dukkhamanveti cakkaṃva vahato padaṃ. Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā. Manasā ce pasannena bhāsati vā karoti vā, tato naṃ sukhamanveti chāyāva anapāyinī. Listen Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind one performs any action of speech or body, then suffering will follow that person as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draught animal. Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with a pure mind one performs any action of speech or body, then happiness will follow that person as a shadow that never departs. Dhammapada 1.1, 1.2 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

Sabbo ādīpito loko, sabbo loko padhūpito; Sabbo pajjalito loko, sabbo loko pakampito. Akampitaṃ apajjalitaṃ, aputhujjanasevitaṃ, agati yattha mārassa -- tattha me nirato mano. Listen The entire world is in flames, the entire world is going up in smoke; the entire world is burning, the entire world is vibrating. But that which does not vibrate or burn, which is experienced by the noble ones, where death has no entry-- in that my mind delights. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.168 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

Maraṇenapi taṃ pahīyati yaṃ puriso mamidanti maññati. Etampi viditvā paṇḍito, na mamattāya nametha māmako. Listen At death a person abandons what one construes as mine. Realizing this, the wise shouldn't incline to be devoted to mine. Sutta Nipāta 4.812 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu 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

Attā hi attano nātho; ko hi nātho paro siyā? Attanā hi sudantena, nāthaṃ labhati dullabhaṃ. Listen One truly is the protector of oneself; who else could the protector be? With oneself fully controlled, one gains a mastery that is hard to gain. Dhammapada 12.160 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita 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

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 the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita 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

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

Sabbo ādīpito loko, sabbo loko padhūpito; Sabbo pajjalito loko, sabbo loko pakampito. Akampitaṃ apajjalitaṃ, aputhujjanasevitaṃ, agati yattha mārassa -- tattha me nirato mano. Listen The entire world is in flames, the entire world is going up in smoke; the entire world is burning, the entire world is vibrating. But that which does not vibrate or burn, which is experienced by the noble ones, where death has no entry-- in that my mind delights. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.168 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