Daily Words of the Buddha

Paradukkhūpadhānena, attano sukhamicchati verasaṃsaggasaṃsaṭṭho, verā so na parimuccati. Listen Entangled by the bonds of hate, one who seeks one's own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred. Dhammapada 21.291 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

Mattāsukhapariccāgā passe ce vipulaṃ sukhaṃ, caje mattāsukhaṃ dhīro, sampassaṃ vipulaṃ sukhaṃ. Listen If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise one renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. Dhammapada 21.290 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

Yogā ve jāyatī bhūri, ayogā bhūrisaṅkhayo. Etaṃ dvedhāpathaṃ ñatvā bhavāya vibhavāya ca, tathāttānaṃ niveseyya yathā bhūri pavaḍḍhati. Listen Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let one so conduct oneself that one's wisdom may increase. Dhammapada 20.282 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

Appaṃ vata jīvitaṃ idaṃ! Oraṃ vassasatāpi miyyati, yo cepi aticca jīvati, atha kho so jarasāpi miyyati. Listen How short this life! You die this side of a century, but even if you live past, you die of old age. Sutta Nipāta 4.810 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

Dosaggiṃ pana mettāya, nibbāpenti naruttamā. Mohaggiṃ pana paññāya yāyaṃ nibbedhagāminī. Listen By love they will quench the fire of hate, by wisdom the fire of delusion. Those supreme ones extinguish delusion with wisdom that breaks through to truth. Itivuttaka 3.93 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

Sabbadā sīlasampanno, paññavā susamāhito; ajjhattacintī satimā, oghaṃ tarati duttaraṃ. Listen In every virtue all-accomplished, with wisdom full and mind composed, looking within and ever mindful-- thus one crosses the raging flood. Sutta Nipāta 1.176 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

Sabbhireva samāsetha, sabbhi kubbetha santhavaṃ. Sataṃ saddhammamaññāya paññā labbhati nāññato. Listen Consort only with the good, come together with the good. To learn the teaching of the good gives wisdom like nothing else can. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.31 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

Apādakehi me mettaṃ, mettaṃ dvipādakehi me; catuppadehi me mettaṃ, mettaṃ bahuppadehi me. Listen I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have love; I have love for those with four feet, for the many-footed I have love. Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.67 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

Sabbā āsattiyo chetvā, vineyya hadaye daraṃ, upasanto sukhaṃ seti, santiṃ pappuyya cetasā. Listen With all one's attachments cut, with the heart's pining subdued, calm and serene and happy is one, for one has attained peace of mind. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.242 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

Sukhā virāgatā loke kāmānaṃ samatikkamo asmimānassa yo vinayo etaṃ ve paramaṃ sukhaṃ. Listen Freedom from lust is happiness in the world, the going beyond all sensual desires. But the crushing out of the conceit "I am"-- this is the highest happiness. Udāna 2.11 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

Taṃ nadīhi vijānātha: sobbhesu padaresu ca, saṇantā yanti kusobbhā, tuṇhīyanti mahodadhī. Listen Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently. Sutta Nipāta 3.725 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

Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ, kusalassa upasampadā, sacittapariyodapanaṃ - etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ. Listen Abstain from all unwholesome deeds, perform wholesome ones, purify your mind - this is the teaching of the Buddhas. Dhammapada 14.183 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

Yathāpi mūle anupaddave daḷhe, chinnopi rukkho punareva rūhati, evampi taṇhānusaye anūhate, nibbattatī dukkhamidaṃ punappunaṃ. Listen Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again. Dhammapada 24.338 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

Atthamhi jātamhi sukhā sahāyā; tuṭṭhī sukhā yā itarītarena; puññaṃ sukhaṃ jīvitasaṅkhayamhi, sabbassa dukkhassa sukhaṃ pahānaṃ. Listen Good are friends when need arises; good is contentment with just what one has; good is merit when life is at an end, and good is the abandoning of all suffering. Dhammapada 23.331 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

Sukhakāmāni bhūtāni, yo daṇḍena na hiṃsati attano sukhamesāno, pecca so labhate sukhaṃ. Listen One who, while oneself seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will find happiness hereafter. Dhammapada 10.132 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