Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada

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A Treasure Trove of Knowledge From Buddha for You
You might like The Dhammapada for one of the following reasons:
1. People read it widely: It is from the great Buddha (aka Siddhartha Gautama) and has pithy wise sayings like, “He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.” It is the most widely read Buddhist scripture enjoyed by people all over the world.
2. It Can Be Your Companion: Very short sayings and doesn’t consume a lot of your time, once you have marked the sayings that are important to you, you can keep coming back to these and refer to them again and again. That can and will reinforce a certain good behavior, or motivate you or remind you of a powerful idea that you have discovered from the book. A powerful guide for your daily reading.
3, Good Advice on Both Spiritual and Day-to-day Side of Life: This little book has both. As humans, we need to achieve things that are related to finance and other day-to-day stuff. But we also need a spiritual level fulfillment in our life. This book has sayings that are completely for your spiritual side, as well as sayings that can help you immensely with your goals, attitude and good life.
The Dhammapada by Max Muller is one of the best translations out there with 423 verses in 26 categories to serve, encourage and help you.
This anthology of verses, a masterpiece, attributed to great Buddha is from experience and realization on various occasions in his life. So, they are real gems in themselves and were not written in a matter of days or weeks, but from deep understanding of life from the level of enlightenment.
Some Sayings From the Books:
1. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
2. Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.
3. Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
4. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.
Chapters:
1. The Twin Verses
2. On Earnestness
3. Thought
4. Flowers
5. The Fool
6. The Wise Man (Pandita)
7. The Venerable (Arhat)
8. The Thousands
9. Evil
10. Punishment
11. Old Age
12. Self
13. The World
14. The Buddha (the Awakened)
15. Happiness
16. Pleasure
17. Anger
18. Impurity
19. The Just
20. The Way
21. Miscellaneous
22. The Downward Course
23. The Elephant
24. Thirst
25. The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
26. The Brahmana (Arhat)
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