



Produced by Tom Weiss





THE DHAMMAPADA

A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

Translated from Pali by F. Max Muller


From:

     The Sacred Books of the East
     Translated by Various Oriental Scholars
     Edited by F. Max Muller
     Volume X
     Part I




[Note: The introduction, notes and index have been omitted.]




Contents

     Chapter 1: The Twin Verses
     Chapter 2: On Earnestness
     Chapter 3: Thought
     Chapter 4: Flowers
     Chapter 5: The Fool
     Chapter 6: The Wise Man (Pandita)
     Chapter 7: The Venerable (Arhat)
     Chapter 8: The Thousands
     Chapter 9: Evil
     Chapter 10: Punishment
     Chapter 11: Old Age
     Chapter 12: Self
     Chapter 13: The World
     Chapter 14: The Buddha (the Awakened)
     Chapter 15: Happiness
     Chapter 16: Pleasure
     Chapter 17: Anger
     Chapter 18: Impurity
     Chapter 19: The Just
     Chapter 20: The Way
     Chapter 21: Miscellaneous
     Chapter 22: The Downward Course
     Chapter 23: The Elephant
     Chapter 24: Thirst
     Chapter 25: The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
     Chapter 26 The Brahmana (Arhat)




DHAMMAPADA




Chapter I. The Twin-Verses

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