The Dhammapada
by The Buddha
- Field
- Philosophy
- Translator
- F. Max Müller
- Licence
- Public domain (Wikisource, PD-old)
- Source
- wikisource
- Length
- about 12,016 words in 27 sections
Opening preview
The first paragraphs of "Chapter I: The Twin-Verses". Read the full section
1 All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
2 All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
3 "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.
Contents
- Part 1 · 32 words
- Chapter I: The Twin-Verses · 613 words
- Chapter II: On Earnestness · 308 words
- Chapter III: Thought · 308 words
- Chapter IV: Flowers · 442 words
- Chapter V: The Fool · 479 words
- Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) · 413 words
- Chapter VII: The Venerable (Arhat) · 282 words
- Chapter VIII: The Thousands · 459 words
- Chapter IX: Evil · 422 words
- Chapter X: Punishment · 427 words
- Chapter XI: Old Age · 296 words
- Chapter XII: Self · 278 words
- Chapter XIII: The World · 312 words
- Chapter XIV: The Buddha (The Awakened) · 486 words
- Chapter XV: Happiness · 314 words
- Chapter XVI: Pleasure · 298 words
- Chapter XVII: Anger · 369 words
- Chapter XVIII: Impurity · 599 words
- Chapter XIX: The Just · 446 words
- Chapter XX: The Way · 495 words
- Chapter XXI: Miscellaneous · 423 words
- Chapter XXII: The Downward Course · 402 words
- Chapter XXIII: The Elephant · 400 words
- Chapter XXIV: Thirst · 844 words
- Chapter XXV: The Bhikshu (Mendicant) · 631 words
- Chapter XXVI - The Brahmana (Arhat) · 1,238 words