2. 2 The compulsive urges of the thoughtless grow like a creeper. They jump like a monkey from one life to another, looking for fruit in the forest.
3. 3 When a person is driven by selfish desires, sorrow spreads in his life like wild grass.
4. 4 All human beings are subject to attachment and thirst for pleasure. Driven by this thirst they run about frightened like a hunted hare, suffering more and more.
5. 5 A person driven by fierce craving is like a spider caught in his own web.
6. 6 He is supremely wise who is free from compulsive urges and attachment.
7. 7 Greed, lust, hatred, and selfish desires ruin the mind, as weeds ruin the field.
8. 8 Train your senses, they are good friends when trained and will take you beyond sorrow.
9. 9 A true bhikshu trains his body, speech and mind and is at peace with him self.
10. 10 A true bhikshu lives simply, is contented and never jealous of others. Those who are jealous cannot do well in meditation.
11. 11 Bhikshu, empty your boat! It will go faster. Cast out greed and hatred and reach âNirvanaâ.
12. Be a friend to all. Perform your duties well. Joy will grow sorrow will end.
13. Cross the river bravely, conquer all your passions. Go beyond the world of fragments, likes and dislikes and all fetters will fall away. 13
14. The sun shines in the day, the moon shines at night, the warrior shine in battle; the Brahmin in meditation. But day and night the Buddha shines in radiance of love for all. 14
15. Him I call a Brahmin who is never angry and never harms others even when he is harmed by them. 15
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17. Him I call a Brahmin who possessing nothing, desiring nothing and is free from past and future. 17