Q0465

Dhammapada

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Conquer anger by non-anger; conquer evil by good.
Thinker Dhammapada
School Early Buddhism
Source Dhammapada 223
Theme Philosophy
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Dhammapada 223, within the tradition of Early Buddhism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of philosophy, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Dhammapada's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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  1. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law.
  2. To avoid all evil, to cultivate the good, and to cleanse one's mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
  3. One is one's own refuge; who else could be the refuge?
  4. Let one not regard the faults of others, nor what others have done or left undone; let one regard rather one's own deeds, done and undone.
  5. You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way.

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  3. What is opposed brings together; from what differs comes the finest harmony.
  4. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
  5. Pleasure is the beginning and end of the happy life — not the pleasures of profligates, but freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the soul.

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