Dhammapada · Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Dhammaṭṭha-Vagga (The Just)
Translated by F. Max Müller (1881, Sacred Books of the East vol. 10, public domain), 1881. Public domain.
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A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.
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A man is not a supporter of the law because he talks much; even if a man has learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is a supporter of the law, a man who never neglects the law.
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A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called `Old-in-vain.'
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He in whom there is truth, virtue, love, restraint, moderation, he who is free from impurity and is wise, he is called an elder.
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An envious greedy, dishonest man does not become respectable by means of much talking only, or by the beauty of his complexion.
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He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
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Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man who speaks falsehood become a Samana; can a man be a Samana who is still held captive by desire and greediness?
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He who always quiets the evil, whether small or large, he is called a Samana (a quiet man), because he has quieted all evil.
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A man is not a mendicant (Bhikshu) simply because he asks others for alms; he who adopts the whole law is a Bhikshu, not he who only begs.
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He who is above good and evil, who is chaste, who with knowledge passes through the world, he indeed is called a Bhikshu. 268, 269. A man is not a Muni because he observes silence (mona, i.e. mauna), if he is foolish and ignorant; but the wise who, taking the balance, chooses the good and avoids evil, he is a Muni, and is a Muni thereby; he who in this world weighs both sides is called a Muni.
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A man is not an elect (Ariya) because he injures living creatures; because he has pity on all living creatures, therefore is a man called Ariya. 271, 272. Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning, not by entering into a trance, not by sleeping alone, do I earn the happiness of release which no worldling can know. Bhikshu, be not confident as long as thou hast not attained the extinction of desires.