2018.03.08 Thursday

273 Of paths the Eightfold Path is the best; of truths the Four Words; Detachment (Nibbāna) is the best of mental states and of bipeds (men), the Man of Vision.

274 This alone is the Path; there is no other for the purification of insight. Follow this Path, and you will confound Māra (the Power of Evil).

275 Following this Path you shall make an end of suffering. Declared unto you is the Path by me having learnt the process of the removal of the arrow (of lust).

276 You yourselves should strive; the Buddhas are but the pointers to the Path. Those who enter the Path and cultivate meditation, free themselves from the bonds of Māra (the Power of Evil).

From The Dhammapada Sayings of the Buddha, With Introductory Essays and Notes as Translated by Piyadassi Thera, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy * Sri Lanka 1974

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