Quotes About Dhammapada

In the Dhammap?da, happiness and unhappiness are said to originate in the mind: 'Speak or act with a corrupted mind, And suffering follows As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

As the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, "The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. . . . Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains.

The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of the Buddha, tells us: "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday…. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart…. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

The Law of the Cross saves because it affirms and embodies the "eternal law" that the Dhammapada, in a different context, also realized: "By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.