Hold Yourself Dear
“If you hold yourself dear then don’t fetter yourself with evil, for happiness isn’t easily gained by one who commits a wrong-doing. When seized by the End-maker as you abandon the human state, what’s truly your own? What do you take along when you go? What follows behind you like a shadow that never leaves? Both the merit & evil that you as a mortal perform here: That’s what’s truly your own, what you take along when you go; that’s what follows behind you like a shadow that never leaves. So do what is admirable, as an accumulation for the future life. Deeds of merit are the support for beings when they arise in the other world.”
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