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[NV .8.] 
There may arise other rules which accord with the Faith. 
These too you should reconcile yourselves to, agree to, rejoice 
in, cherish in your heart without dispute, remember and 
carefully observe. 
[Concluding Stanzas.] 
The Buddhas say that patience is the excellent penance 
and that it is the best Nirvana: he is not an anchorite who 
injures others, and he is not an ascetic who insults 
others (23),! 
ust as a person who possesses eyes and locomotion 
escapes all dangers, so do ye avoid all sins in this world by 
leading the life of a wise man (24). 
ot to blame, not to injure, to live restrained under the 
law, to be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone and to 
dwell on the highest thoughts—this is indeed the teaching of 
the Buddhas (25). 
Just as a bee alights on a flower and destroys not its 
colour nor its scent, but taking a sip departs, so let a sage 
dwell in his village (26).3 
Sage notices neither the perversities of others nor what 
others do or leave undone, but he should look only to his own 
conduct, whether that be right or not (27).* 
A person who conceives the highest thoughts, studies the 
fundamental characteristics of a saint, and thinks continuously 
of peace, attains Nirvana the final repose (28). : 
erit greatly increases in one who is charitable, there is 
no enemy to one who is well restrained, a pious person shuns 
all sins and one whose troubles are over attains Nirvana (29).° 
cn ot to commit any sin, to practise virtue and to cleanse 
ne ‘mind, that is the teaching of the Buddhas (30).° 
is od is the restraint of the body, the restraint in speech 
hissy So good is the restraint of the mind, restraint in all 
mes 18 good. A monk restrained in all things is freed from 
al] Sorrows (31 a 
© who guards his speech, restrains his mind and lets not 
a body practise an evil—being cleansed in his activity in 
tee a directions—attains the road preached by the 
é Vipasyi the perfect seer, Sikhi the holder of a charming 
conn eo ee er 
Jhammapada 
i 
Nt Ne 
ao 
hcl Daal 
da, Buddhavagga, verse 5. 
Shamma 
Whithiinas. 
“pada, Bhikkhuvagga, verse 2. 
