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DHAMMAPADA *
I
Antithesis. (THE TWINS)
ALL that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built
of mind.
Who acts or speaks with evil thought, him doth pain follow
sure and blind :
So the ox plants his foot and so the car-wheel follows hard
behind.
[Blind, i.e., operated by law, not by caprice of a deity.]
All that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built
of mind.
Who acts or speaks with righteous thought, him happiness
doth surely find.
So failing not, the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned.
“ Me he abused and me he beat, he robbed me, he defeated
me.”
In whom such thoughts find harbourage hatred will never
cease to be.
* An attempt to translate this noblest of the Buddhist books into the
original metres. The task soon tired.
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