# Dhammapada

## Books

* [The Dhammapada](http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/scrndhamma.pdf) -

  Buddhanet version is freely available online.
* [Essence of the Dhammapada](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17318701-essence-of-the-dhammapada) -

  Translation by Ekanath Easwaran 

## Selected verses

### [Yamaka vagga - Pairs](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.budd.html)

* Verse 1 - Suffering is Mind-made

  > Mind is the forerunner of (all evil) states. Mind is chief; and they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows as the wheel follows the hoof of the ox.
* Verse 2 - Happiness is Mind-made

  > Mind is the forerunner of (all good) states. Mind is chief, and they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with pure mind, happienss follows as one's own shadow that never leaves.

### [Citta vagga - The Mind](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.03.budd.html)

* Verse 33 - Straighten the Fickle Mind

  > The flickering, fickle mind, difficult to guard, difficult to control - the wise person straightens it as a fletcher straightens an arrow.
* Verse 36 - Guard the Mind well

  > The mind is very hard to perceive, extrmely subtle, flits wheverer it lists. Let the wise person guard it; a guarded mind is conducive to happiness.

### [Puppha vagga - Flowers](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.04.budd.html)

* Verse 47 - Sensualities are swept away by death

  > The man who gathers flowers (of sensual pleasure), whose mind is distracted, death carries off as a great flood sweeps away a sleeping village.