KN.DHP1-20 — The Dhammapada, Yamakavagga
The Story of Cakkhupāla Thera
Mind precedes all mental states, mind is their chief, they are mind-made. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
The Story of Maṭṭhakuṇḍalī
Mind precedes all mental states, mind is their chief, they are mind-made. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
The Story of Tissa Thera
He abused me, he struck me, he defeated me, he robbed me, those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
He abused me, he struck me, he defeated me, he robbed me, those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
The Story of Kāḷayakkhinī
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; by non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
The Story of the Kosambaka Disciples
Others do not understand that we must die here, but those who understand this, their quarrels cease.
The Story of Mahākāḷa Thera
The one who dwells contemplating the beautiful, with senses unrestrained, immoderate in food, lazy, and of weak effort, him Māra overthrows, as the wind a weak tree.
The one who dwells contemplating the foul, with senses well-restrained, moderate in food, faithful, and of strong effort, him Māra does not overthrow, as the wind does not a rocky mountain.
The Story of Devadatta
The one who wears the robe while being impure, devoid of self-control and truth, is not worthy of the yellow robe.
The one who has discarded impurity, well-established in virtue, endowed with self-control and truth, is indeed worthy of the yellow robe.
The Story of Sāriputta Thera
Those who mistake the unessential for the essential and the essential for the unessential, they do not attain the essential, being in the realm of wrong intention.
Knowing the essential as essential and the unessential as unessential, they attain the essential, being in the realm of right intention.
The Story of Nanda Thera
As rain penetrates an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.
As rain does not penetrate a well-thatched house, so passion does not penetrate a well-developed mind.
The Story of Cunda the Pig-Killer
Here he grieves, hereafter he grieves, the evil-doer grieves in both worlds. He grieves and is afflicted, seeing his own defiled deeds.
The Story of Dhammika the Lay Disciple
Here he rejoices, hereafter he rejoices, the doer of good rejoices in both worlds. He rejoices and exults, seeing his own pure deeds.
The Story of Devadatta
Here he suffers, hereafter he suffers, the evil-doer suffers in both worlds. I have done evil, he laments, and he suffers even more when gone to a bad state.
The Story of Sumana the Deity
Here he delights, hereafter he delights, the doer of good delights in both worlds.
He rejoices, saying, Merit has been made by me, and rejoices even more when he has gone to a good destination.
Regarding the story of the disciple who was an enemy due to hatred:
Even if one speaks much connected speech, if he is heedless, he is not a practitioner; like a cowherd counting others cattle, he does not partake in the essence of the monastic life.
But if one speaks little connected speech, yet is a follower of the Dhamma, having abandoned lust, hatred, and delusion, with full understanding and a well-liberated mind, not clinging here or elsewhere, he partakes in the essence of the monastic life.