#dammapada

[inspirationfrombuddha]

The Learner (of the Transcendental Path) shall conquer the Realm of Death with its deities. The Learner shall make out the well-taught Verses of Truth as an expert picks flowers

Dhammapada – Flowers 45 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

As a great flood carries away a sleeping village, so death bears off the man who, possessed of longing, plucks only the flowers (of existence).

Dhammapada – Flowers 47 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

Who shall conquer the earth and the Realm of Death with its deities? Who shall make out the well-taught Verses of Truth as an expert picks flowers?

Dhammapada – Flowers 44 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

(The mind) is frivolous and difficult to control, alighting on whatever it pleases. It is good to tame the mind. A tamed mind brings happiness.

Dhammapada – The Mind 35 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

The almsman who delights in mindfulness (and) who regards unmindfulness with fear is not liable to regression. He is in the presence of Nirvana.

Dhammapada - Mindfulness 32 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

Mindful among the unmindful, wide awake among the sleeping, the man of good understanding forges ahead like a swift horse outdistancing a feeble hack.

Dhammapada - Mindfulness 29 ~ Buddha

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As a dweller in the mountains looks down on those who live in the valley, so the spiritually mature person, the hero free from sorrow, having driven outunmindfulness by means of mindfulness, ascends to the Palace of Wisdom and looks down at the sorrowful, spiritually immature multitude (below).

Dhammapada - Mindfulness 28 ~ Buddha

[inspirationfrombuddha]

Whoever is energetic, recollected, pure in conduct, considerate, selfrestrained, of righteous life, and mindful, the glory of such a one waxes exceedingly.

Dhammapada - Mindfulness 24 ~ Buddha