Pāpañce puriso kayirā, na naṃ kayirā punappunaṃ. Na tamhi chandaṃ kayirātha, dukkho pāpassa uccayo. Listen Should a person commit evil, let one not do it again and again. Let one not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil. Dhammapada 9.117 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Yo ca vassasataṃ jīve apassaṃ udayabbayaṃ ekāhaṃ jīvitaṃ seyyo passato udayabbayaṃ. Listen Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. Dhammapada 8.113 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Yo ca vassasataṃ jīve dussīlo asamāhito ekāhaṃ jīvitaṃ seyyo sīlavantassa jhāyino. Listen Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled. Dhammapada 8.110 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Apādakehi me mettaṃ, mettaṃ dvipādakehi me; catuppadehi me mettaṃ, mettaṃ bahuppadehi me. Listen I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have love; I have love for those with four feet, for the many-footed I have love. Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.67 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Māvamaññetha pāpassa, "Na mantaṃ āgamissati." Udabindunipātena, udakumbhopi pūrati. Bālo pūrati pāpassa, thokaṃ thokampi ācinaṃ. Listen Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills oneself with evil. Dhammapada 9.121 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Attanā hi kataṃ pāpaṃ, attanā saṃkilissati; attanā akataṃ pāpaṃ, attanāva visujjhati. Suddhī asuddhi paccattaṃ: nāñño aññaṃ visodhaye. Listen By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another. Dhammapada 12.165 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Dānañca, peyyavajjañca, atthacariyā ca yā idha, samānattatā ca dhammesu, tattha tattha yathārahaṃ; ete kho saṅgahā loke rathassāṇīva yāyato. Listen Generosity, kind words, doing a good turn for others, and treating all people alike: these bonds of sympathy are to the world what the linchpin is to the chariot wheel. Jātaka 20 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Dhammena saṃharitvāna, uṭṭhānādhigataṃ dhanaṃ, tappeti annapānena sammā satte vanibbake. Listen With one's wealth collected justly, won through one's own efforts, one shares both food and drink with beings who are in need. Itivuttaka 3.75 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Na jaccā vasalo hoti na jaccā hoti brāhmaṇo. Kammunā vasalo hoti, kammunā hoti brāhmaṇo Listen One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. Sutta Nipāta 1.136 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Uddhaṃ, tiriyaṃ apācinaṃ, yāvatā jagato gati samavekkhitā va dhammānaṃ khandhānaṃ udayabbayaṃ. Listen Above, across or back again, wherever one goes in the world let one carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. Itivuttaka 4.111 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx