Daily Words of the Buddha

Attā hi attano nātho, attā hi attano gati. Tasmā saṃyamamattānaṃ assaṃ bhadraṃva vāṇijo. Listen One is one's own protector, one is one's own refuge. Therefore, one should control oneself, even as a trader controls a noble steed. Dhammapada 25.380 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

Kodhaṃ chetvā sukhaṃ seti, kodhaṃ chetvā na socati. Kodhassa visamūlassa madhuraggassa brāhmaṇa; vadhaṃ ariyā pasaṃsanti tañhi chetvā na socatī. Listen Slay anger and you will be happy, slay anger and you will not sorrow. For the slaying of anger in all its forms with its poisoned root and sweet sting — that is the slaying the nobles praise; with anger slain one weeps no more. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.187 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

Sukhaṃ yāva jarā sīlaṃ, sukhā saddhā patiṭṭhitā, sukho paññāya paṭilābho, pāpānaṃ akaraṇaṃ sukhaṃ. Listen Good is virtue until life's end, good is faith that is steadfast, good is the acquisition of wisdom, and good is the avoidance of evil. Dhammapada 23.333 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

Sace labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃ saddhiṃ caraṃ sādhuvihāridhīraṃ, abhibhuyya sabbāni parissayāni, careyya tenattamano satīmā. Listen If for company you find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, you should, overcoming all impediments, keep their company joyously and mindfully. Dhammapada 23.328 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

Yo ca dhammamabhiññāya dhammamaññāya paṇḍito, rahadova nivāte ca anejo vūpasammati. Listen Thoroughly understanding the Dhamma and freed from longing through insight, the wise one rid of all desire is calm as a pool unstirred by wind. Itivuttaka 3.92 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

Appamādaratā hotha! Sacittamanurakkhatha! Duggā uddharathattānaṃ, paṅke sannova kuñjaro. Listen Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts! Draw yourself out of this bog of evil, even as an elephant draws itself out of the mud. Dhammapada 23.327 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

Yañca kāmasukhaṃ loke, yañcidaṃ diviyaṃ sukhaṃ, taṇhakkhayasukhassete, kalaṃ nāgghanti soḷasiṃ. Listen Any sensual bliss in the world, any heavenly bliss, isn't worth one sixteenth-sixteenth of the bliss of the ending of craving. Udāna 2.12 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

Sukhā matteyyatā loke, atho petteyyatā sukhā, sukhā sāmaññatā loke, atho brahmaññatā sukhā. Listen In this world, good it is to serve one's mother, good it is to serve one's father, good it is to serve the monks and nuns, and good it is to serve the holy ones. Dhammapada 23.332 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

Yassa selūpamaṃ cittaṃ, ṭhitaṃ nānupakampati, virattaṃ rajanīyesu, kopaneyye na kuppati: Yassevaṃ bhāvitaṃ cittaṃ, kuto taṃ dukkhamessatī? Listen Whose mind is like rock, steady, unmoved, dispassionate for things that spark passion, unangered by things that spark anger: When one's mind is developed like this, from where can there come suffering & stress? Udāna 4.34 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

Pāpañce puriso kayirā, na naṃ kayirā punappunaṃ. Na tamhi chandaṃ kayirātha, dukkho pāpassa uccayo. Listen Should a person commit evil, let one not do it again and again. Let one not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil. Dhammapada 9.117 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

Yo ca vassasataṃ jīve apassaṃ udayabbayaṃ ekāhaṃ jīvitaṃ seyyo passato udayabbayaṃ. Listen Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. Dhammapada 8.113 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

Yo ca vassasataṃ jīve dussīlo asamāhito ekāhaṃ jīvitaṃ seyyo sīlavantassa jhāyino. Listen Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled. Dhammapada 8.110 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

Māvamaññetha pāpassa, "Na mantaṃ āgamissati." Udabindunipātena, udakumbhopi pūrati. Bālo pūrati pāpassa, thokaṃ thokampi ācinaṃ. Listen Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills oneself with evil. Dhammapada 9.121 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

Yo sahassaṃ sahassena saṅgāme mānuse jine, ekañca jeyyamattānaṃ sa ve saṅgāmajuttamo. Listen Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand people in battle, yet one indeed is the noblest victor who conquers oneself. Dhammapada 10.103 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

Santaṃ tassa manaṃ hoti, santā vācā, ca kamma ca, sammadaññā, vimuttassa, upasantassa tādino. Listen Calm is one's thought, calm one's speech, and calm one's deed, who, truly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise. Dhammapada 7.96 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