You are your own master, you make your future.
Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer
trains a thoroughbred
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Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.________________________________
Just as rust arising from iron
eats away the base from which it arises,
even so, their own deeds
lead transgressors to states of woe.
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One has broken the cycle,
attained freedom from desire.
The dried-up stream no longer flows.
The cycle, broken, no longer turns.
This, just this, is the end of misery._______________________________
Overcome the angry by non-anger;
overcome the wicked by goodness;
overcome the miser by generosity;
overcome the liar by truth.
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One should give up anger, renounce pride,
and overcome all fetters.
Suffering never befalls one
who clings not to mind and body and is detached.__________________________________
Happy indeed we live,
friendly amidst the hostile.
Amidst hostile people
we dwell free from hatred._________________________________
Easy to do are things
that are bad and harmful to oneself.
But exceedingly difficult to do
are things that are good and beneficial.
