Dhammapada · Chapter 13
The World
12 verses · Do not follow base ways or live in heedlessness; do not embrace false views. See the world as a painted royal chariot — fools sink into it while the wise pass beyond, entering the stream that leads to liberation.
Chapter 13
लोकवग्गो
Lokavagga
13.1
Follow not the inferior Dhamma; consort not with heedlessness
13.2
Rouse yourself
13.3
Live the Dhamma well, not wrongly
13.4
See the world as a bubble, as a mirage
13.5
Come, behold this world like a painted royal chariot — in which fools sink
13.6
One who was heedless and afterward becomes heedful — he lights up the world, like the…
13.7
Whose evil deed is covered up by good — he lights up the world, like the moon freed from…
13.8
This world has become blind — few here see clearly
13.9
Swans travel the path of the sun; the awakened travel the air by psychic power
13.10
For one who has transgressed the one Dhamma — truthfulness — and who has rejected the…
13.11
The miserly do not go to the heavenly realm; fools do not praise giving
13.12
Better than sole sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than…