09 June, 2013

The Buddhist Way of Life : On craving and lust.

2. On craving and lust


  • Do not be possessed by Craving nor by Lust. 
  • This is the Buddhist way of life. 
  • Not in a rain of riches is satisfaction of desire to be found. " Unsatisfying, grievous are desires," so the wise man well knows. . 
  • Even in the pleasures of the heaven-worlds he takes no delight; his delight is in the ending of craving, he is the disciple of the Supremely Awakened One, the Buddha.
  • From craving is born sorrow, from craving is born fear. To him who is wholly free from craving there is neither sorrow nor fear. 
  • From craving is born sorrow, from craving is born fear. To him who is wholly free from craving there is neither sorrow nor fear.  
  • He who gives himself to vanity, forgetting (the real aim of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
  • Let no man have attachment to anything; loss of it gives pain. Those who love nothing, and hate nothing have no fetters.
  • From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear. 
  • From attachment comes grief, from attachment comes fear; he who is free from attachment knows neither grief nor fear. 
  • From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he who is free from lust knows neither grief nor fear. 
  • From greed comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free from greed knows neither grief nor fear. 
  • 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. 
  • Kinsmen, friends and lovers salute a man who has been long away, and returns safe from afar. 
  • In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world as kinsmen receive a friend on his return.

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