Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind one speaks or acts, suffering follows one like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. | Dhammapada Buddhism The Pairs 001 Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind one speaks or acts suffering follows one like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. 002 Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief they are all mind wrought. If with a pure mind one speaks or acts happiness follows one like one s never-departing shadow. 003 He abused me he struck me he overpowered me he robbed me --those who harbour such thoughts do not still their hatred. 004 He abused me he struck me he overpowered me he robbed me --those who do not harbour such thoughts still their hatred. 005 Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world by non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. 006 Dhammapada Retrieved from This is an Eternal Law. 007 There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die but those who realize this settle their quarrels. 008 Just as a storm throws down a weak tree so does Mara overpower the person who lives for the pursuit of pleasures who is uncontrolled in one s senses immoderate in eating indolent and dissipated. 009 Just as a storm cannot throw down a rocky mountain so Mara can never overpower the person who lives meditating on the impurities who is controlled in one s senses moderate in eating and filled with faith and earnest effort. 010 Whoever being depraved devoid of self-control and truthfulness should don the monk s yellow robe that person surely is not worthy of the robe. 011 But whoever is purged of depravity well established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness that person indeed is worthy of the robe. 012 Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential dwelling in wrong thoughts never arrive at the essential. 013 Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential dwelling in right thoughts arrive at the essential. 014 Just as the rain breaks through an ill- thatched .
