Posts Tagged ‘meditation’
Posted on: August 26th, 2012 by admin
Sept8
Valerie Roebuck will be giving a talk entitled An Introduction to the Dhammapada as part of the Summer Programme at the Manchester Centre for Buddhist Meditation. It will be open to all, and no previous knowledge of the text or of Buddhism is required.
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Posted on: December 31st, 2011 by admin
Dec31
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy,
Or a rival to a rival,
A wrongly directed mind
Will do worse to you than that.
What mother or father cannot do,
Or any other kin,
A rightly directed mind
Will do better for you than that.
Dhammapada 42-3
These are some of my favourite verses from the Dhammapada, though in their apparent simplicity they are particularly difficult to translate. (The original Pali is given below.)
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