A MAN

                                                                HE JUST

              A MAN IS NOT JUST IF HE CARRIES A MATTER BY VIOLENCE, HE WHO DISTINGUISHES BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG, WHO IS LEARNED AND GUIDES OTHERS, NOT BY VIOLENCE, BUT BY THE SAME LAW, BEING A GUARDIAN OF THE LAW AND INTELLETENT, HE IS CALLED JUST. A MAN IS NOT LEARNED BECAUSE HE TALKS MUCH, HE WHO IS PATIENT, FREE FROM HATRED AND FEAR, HE IS CALLED LEARNED. A MAN IS NOT A SUPPORTER OF THE LAW BECAUSE HE TALKS MUCH, EVEN IF A MAN HAS LEARNT LITTLE, BUT SEES THE LAW BODILY, HE IS A SOPPORTER OF THE LAW, A MAN WHO NEVER NEGLECTS THE LAW. A MAN IS NOT AN ELDER BECAUSE HIS HEAD IS GRAVY, HIS AGE MAY BE RIPE, BUT HE IS CALLED "OLD-IN-VAIN". HE IN WHOM ALL THIS IS DESTROYED, AND TAKEN OUT WITH THE VERY ROOT, HE, WHEN FREED FROM HATRED, IS CALLED REPECTABLE. NOT BY TONSURE DOES AN UNDISCIPLINED MAN WHO IS STILL HELD CAPTIVE BY DESIRE AND GREEDINESS? HE WHO ALWAYS QUIETS THE EVIL, WHETHER SMALL OR LARGE, HE IS CALLED A SAMANA (A QUITE MAN), BECAUSE HE HAS QUEITED ALL EVIL. A MAN IS NOT A MENDICANT (BHIKSHU) SIMPLY BECAUSE HE ASKS OTHERS FOR ALMS, HE WHO ADOPTS THE WHOLE LAW IN A BHIKSHU, NOT HE WHO ONLY BEGS. 

                 HE WHO IS ABOVE GOOD AND EVIL, WHO IS CHASTE, WHO WITH CARE PASSES THROUGH THE WORLD, HE INDEED IS CALLED A BHIKSHU. A MAN IS NOT A MUNI BECAUSE HE OBSERVES SILENCE IF HE IS FOOLISH AND IGNORANT, BUT THE WISE WHO, AS WITH THE BALANCE, CHOOSES THE GOOD AND AVOIDS EVIL, HE IS A MUNI, AND IS A MUNI THEREBY, HE WHO IN THIS WORLD WEIGHS BOTH SIDES IS CALLED A MUNI.

                A MAN IS NOT AN ELECT(ARIYA) BECAUSE HE INJUIRES LIVING CREATURES BECAUSE HE HAS PITY ON ALL LIVING CREATURES, THEREFORE IS A MAN CALLED ARIYA. NOT ONLY BY DISCIPLINE AND VOWS, NOT ONLY BY MUCH LEARNING, NOT BY ENTERING INTO A TRANCE, NOT BY SLEEPING ALONE, DO I EARN THE HAPPINESS OF RELEASE WHICH NO WORLDLING CAN KNOW. O BHIKSHU, HE WHO HAS OBTAINED THE EXTINCTION OF DESIRES, HAS OBTAINED CONFIDENCE.

                                                                        THE WAY

                THE BEST OF WAYS IN THE EIGHTFOLD, THE BEST OF TRUTHS THE FOUR WORDS, THE BEST OF VIRTUES PASSIONLESSNESS, THE BEST OF MEN HE WHO HAS EYES TO SEE. THIS IS THE WAY, THERE IS NO OTHER THAT LEADS TO PURIFYING OF INTELLEGENCE. GO ON THIS PATH! THIS THE CONFUSION OF MARA, THE TEMPTER. IF YOU GO ON THIS WAY, YOU WILL MAKE AN END OF PAIN! THE WAY PREACHED BY ME, WHEN I HAD UNDERSTOOD THE REMOVAL OF THE THORNS IN THE FLESH. YOU YOURSELF MUST MAKE AN EFFORT. THE TATHAGATAS(BUDDHAS) ARE ONLY PREACHERS. THE THOUGHTFUL WHO ENTER THE WAY ARE FREED FROM THE BONDAGE OF MARA. ALL CREATED THINGS PERISH, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY TO PURITY. ALL CREATED THINGS ARE GRIEF AND PAIN, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO PURITY. ALL FORMS ARE UNREAL, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECCOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO PURITY. HE WHO DOES NOT ROUSE HIMSELF WHEN IT IS TIME TO RISE, WHO, THOUGH YOUNG AND STRONG, IS FULL OF SLOTH, WHOSE WILL AND THOUGHT ARE WEAK, THAT LAZY AND IDLE MAN NEVER FINDS THE WAY TO KNOWLEDGE.

                    WATCHING HIS SPEECH, WELL RESTRAINED IN MIND, LET A MAN NEVE COMMIT, ANY WRONG WITH HIS BODY! LET A MAN BUT KEEP THESE THREE ROADS OF ACTION CLEAR, AND HE WILL ACHIEVE THE WY WHICH IS TAUGHT BY THE WISE. THROUGH ZEAL KNOWLEDGE IS LOST, LET A MAN WHO KNOWS THIS DOUBLE PATH OF GAIN AND LOSS THUS PLACE HIMSELF THAT KNOWLEDGE MAY GLOW. CUT DOWN THE WHOLE FOREST OF DESIRES, NOT A TREE ONLY! DANGER COMES OUT OF THE FORESTS OF DESIRES. WHEN YOU HAVE CUT DOWN BOTH THE FOREST OF DESIRES AND ITS UNDERGROWTH, THEN, BHIKSHUS, YOU WILL BE RID OF THE FOREST AND OF DESIRES!

                     SO LONG AS THE DESIRE OF MAN TOWARDS WOMAN, EVEN THE SMALLEST, IS NOT DESTROYED, SO LONG IS HIS MIND IN BONDAGE, AS THE CALF THAT DRINKS MILK IS TO ITS MOTHER. CUT OUT THE LOVE OF SELF, LIKE AN AUTUMN LOTUS, WITH THY HANDLE CHERISH THE ROAD OF PEACE, NIRVANA HAS BEEN SLOWN BY SUGATA (BUDDHA). HERE I SHALL DWELL IN THE RAIN, HERE IN WINTER AND SUMMER,. THUS THE FOOL MEDITATES, AND DOES NOT THINK OF DEATH. DEATH COMES AND CARRIES OFF THAT MAN, HONORED FOR HIS CHILDREN AND FLOCKS, HIS MIND DISTRACTED, AS A FLOOD CARRIES OFF A SLEEPING VILLAGE. SONS ARE NO HELP, NOR A FATHER, NOR RELATIONS, THER IS NO HELP FROM KINSFOLK FOR ONE WHOM DEATH HAS SEIZED. A WISE AND WELL-BEHAVED MAN WHO KNOWS THE MEANING OF THIS SHOULD QUICKLY CLEAR THE WAY THAT LEADS TO NIRVANA.