Dhammapada Part I
by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
A series on the Dhammapada, a set of 423 verse teachings given by the Buddha, including explanation of the Pali verse, a synopsis of the background story and application of the teaching to our practice by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu.This Dhammapada Part I podcast includes Chapters 1-17 (Verses 1-234). Please subscribe to Dhammapada Part II for the verses in the rest of the chapters. New episodes are published each week in the Dhammapada Part II podcast.Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public.
Episodes
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Dhammapada Verses 231 - 234: Guarding the Doors
Verse 231 Let a man guard himself against irritability in bodily action; let him be controlled in deed. Abandoning bodily misconduct, let him practice good conduct in deed. Verse 232 Let a man guard himself against irritability in speech; let him be controlled in speech. Abandoning verbal...
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Dhammapada Verse 227 - 230: Blamed
Verse 227 O Atula! Indeed, this is an ancient practice, not one only of today: they blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed. Verse 228 There never was, there never will be, nor is there...
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Dhammapada Verse 226: Ever Awake
Verse 226 Those who are ever vigilant, who discipline themselves day and night, and are ever intent upon Nibbana—their defilements fade away. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 225: Never Falling Away
Verse 225 Those sages who are inoffensive and ever restrained in body, go to the Deathless State, where, having gone, they grieve no more. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 224: The Abode of Angels
Verse 224 Speak the truth; yield not to anger; when asked, give even if you only have a little. By these three means can one reach the presence of the gods. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/...
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Dhammapada Verse 223: Conquer
Verse 223 Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 222: A Charioteer
Verse 222 He who checks rising anger as a charioteer checks a rolling chariot, him I call a true charioteer. Others only hold the reins. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 221: Nothing to Get Hung About
Verse 221 One should give up anger, renounce pride, and overcome all fetters. Suffering never befalls him who clings not to mind and body and is detached. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/…
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Dhammapada Verse 219 & 220: Receiving a Loved One
Verse 219 When, after a long absence, a man safely returns from afar, his relatives, friends and well-wishers welcome him home on arrival. Verse 220 As kinsmen welcome a dear one on arrival, even so his own good deeds will welcome the doer of good who has gone from this world to the next....
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Dhammapada Verse 218: Ineffable Upstream
Verse 218 One who is intent upon the Ineffable (Nibbana), dwells with mind inspired (by supramundane wisdom), and is no more bound by sense pleasures—such a man is called “One Bound Upstream.” (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate...
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Dhammapada Verse 217: They Are Dear
Verse 217 People hold dear him who embodies virtue and insight, who is principled, has realized the truth, and who himself does what he ought to be doing. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/…
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Dhammapada Verse 216: Dangerous Thirst
Verse 216 From craving springs grief, from craving springs fear. For one who is wholly free from craving there is no grief; whence then fear? (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 215: Dangerous Desire
Verse 215 From lust springs grief, from lust springs fear. For one who is wholly free from craving there is no grief; whence then fear? (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 214: Dangerous Love
Verse 214 From attachment springs grief, from attachment springs fear. For one who is wholly free from attachment there is no grief, whence then fear? (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verse 213: Dangerous Affection
Verse 213 From affection springs grief, from affection springs fear. For one who is wholly free from affection there is no grief, whence then fear? (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verse 212: No Sorrow, Whence Fear?
Verse 212 From endearment springs grief, from endearment springs fear. For one who is wholly free from endearment there is no grief, whence then fear? (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verses 209 - 211: Cherished
Verse 209 Giving himself to things to be shunned and not exerting where exertion is needed, a seeker after pleasures, having given up his true welfare, envies those intent upon theirs. Verse 210 Seek no intimacy with the beloved and also not with the unloved, for not to see the beloved and to see...
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Dhammapada Verses 206 - 208: Happy with the Noble
Verse 206 Good is it to see the Noble Ones; to live with them is ever blissful. One will always be happy by not encountering fools. Verse 207 Indeed, he who moves in the company of fools grieves for longing. Association with fools is ever painful, like partnership with an enemy. But association...
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Dhammapada Verse 205: Flavour of Dhamma
Verse 205 Having savored the taste of solitude and peace (of Nibbana), pain-free and stainless he becomes, drinking deep the taste of the bliss of the Truth. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/...
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Dhammapada Verse 204: Four Ultimates
Verse 204 Health is the most precious gain and contentment the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person is the best kinsman, Nibbana the highest bliss. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verse 203: Having Known as It Is
Verse 203 Hunger is the worst disease, conditioned things the worst suffering. Knowing this as it really is, the wise realize Nibbana, the highest bliss. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verse 202: Nothing Like It
Verse 202 There is no fire like lust and no crime like hatred. There is no ill like the aggregates (of existence) and no bliss higher than the peace (of Nibbana). (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 201: Victory and Defeat
Verse 201 Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and...
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Dhammapada Verse 200: Happy With Nothing
Verse 200 Happy indeed we live, we who possess nothing. Feeders on joy we shall be, like the Radiant Gods. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verses 197-199: Happy Among the Unhappy
Verse 197 Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred. Verse 198 Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the afflicted (by craving). Amidst afflicted men we dwell free from affliction. Verse 199 Happy indeed we live, free from avarice amidst the...
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Dhammapada Verses 195 & 196: Worthy of Worship
Verse 195 He who reveres those worthy of reverence, the Buddhas and their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond the reach of sorrow and lamentation—he who reveres such peaceful and fearless ones, his merit none can compute by any measure. Verse 196 He who reveres those...
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Dhammapada Verse 194: Happiness
Verse 194 Blessed is the birth of the Buddhas; blessed is the enunciation of the sacred Teaching; blessed is the harmony in the Order, and blessed is the spiritual pursuit of the united truth-seeker. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To...
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Dhammapada Verse 193: A Thoroughbred
Verse 193 Hard to find is the thoroughbred man (the Buddha); he is not born everywhere. Where such a wise man is born, that clan thrives happily. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our...
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Dhammapada Verses 188 - 192: A Safe Haven
Verse 188 Driven only by fear, do men go for refuge to many places—to hills, woods, groves, trees and shrines. Verse 189 Such, indeed, is no safe refuge; such is not the refuge supreme. Not by resorting to such a refuge is one released from all suffering. Verse 190 He who has gone for refuge to…
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Dhammapada Verses 186 & 187: A Rain of Gold Coins
Verse 186 There is no satisfying sensual desires, even with the rain of gold coins. For sensual pleasures give little satisfaction and much pain. Having understood this, the wise man finds no delight even in heavenly pleasures. The disciple of the Supreme Buddha delights in the destruction of...
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Dhammapada Verses 183-185: The Teaching of the Buddhas
Verse 183 To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one’s mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas. Verse 184 Enduring patience is the highest austerity. “Nibbana is supreme,” say the Buddhas. He is not a true monk who harms another, nor a true renunciate who oppresses others. Verse…
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Dhammapada Verse 182: Hard Things
Verse 182 Hard is it to be born a man; hard is the life of mortals. Hard is it to gain the opportunity of hearing the Sublime Truth, and hard to encounter is the arising of the Buddhas. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 181: Even the Divine Envy Them
Verse 181 Those wise ones who are devoted to meditation and who delight in the calm of renunciation—such mindful ones, Supreme Buddhas, even the gods hold dear. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verses 179 & 180: Unbound
Verse 179 By what track can you trace that trackless Buddha of limitless range, whose victory nothing can undo, whom none of the vanquished defilements can ever pursue? Verse 180 By what track can you trace that trackless Buddha of limitless range, in whom exists no longer, the entangling and...
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Dhammapada Verse 178: More Excellent
Verse 178 Better than sole sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better even than lordship over all the worlds is the supramundane Fruition of Stream Entrance. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 177: Fools Do Not Applaud
Verse 177 Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms; nor, indeed, do fools praise generosity. But the wise man rejoices in giving, and by that alone does he become happy hereafter. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 176: A Liar
Verse 176 For a liar who has violated the one law (of truthfulness) who holds in scorn the hereafter, there is no evil that he cannot do. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 175: The Way Within
Verse 175 Swans fly on the path of the sun; men pass through the air by psychic powers; the wise are led away from the world after vanquishing Mara and his host. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 174: Blind Is This World
Verse 174 Blind is the world; here only a few possess insight. Only a few, like birds escaping from the net, go to realms of bliss. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community...
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Dhammapada Verse 173: Overcome Evil with Good
Verse 173 He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home...
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Dhammapada Verse 172: From Behind a Cloud
Verse 172 He who having been heedless is heedless no more, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home...
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Dhammapada Verse 171: Come Look At This World
Verse 171 Come! Behold this world, which is like a decorated royal chariot. Here fools flounder, but the wise have no attachment to it. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 170: Unseen By Death
Verse 170 One who looks upon the world as a bubble and a mirage, him the King of Death sees not. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course…
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Dhammapada Verses 168 and 169: Dhamma-Faring
Verse 168 Arise! Do not be heedless! Lead a righteous life. The righteous live happily both in this world and the next. Verse 169 Lead a righteous life; lead not a base life. The righteous live happily both in this world and the next. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts:...
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Dhammapada Verse 167: Do Not Follow
Verse 167 Follow not the vulgar way; live not in heedlessness; hold not false views; linger not long in worldly existence. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and…
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Dhammapada Verse 166 - One's Own Benefit
Verse 166 Let one not neglect one’s own welfare for the sake of another, however great. Clearly understanding one’s own welfare, let one be intent upon the good. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet:...
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Dhammapada Verse 165: Self-Liberation
Verse 165 By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate…
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Dhammapada Verse 164: Killed By Its Own Fruit
Verse 164 Whoever, on account of perverted views, scorns the Teaching of the Perfected Ones, the Noble and Righteous Ones—that fool, like the bamboo, produces fruits only for self destruction. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate...
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Dhammapada Verse 163: Hard To Better Oneself
Verse 163 Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation...
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Dhammapada Verse 162: Consumed By Evil
Verse 162 Just as a single creeper strangles the tree on which it grows, even so, a man who is exceedingly depraved harms himself as only an enemy might wish. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet…
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A series on the Dhammapada, a set of 423 verse teachings given by the Buddha, including explanation of the Pali verse, a synopsis of the background story and application of the teaching to our practice by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu.This Dhammapada Part I podcast includes Chapters 1-17 (Verses 1-234). Please subscribe to Dhammapada Part II for the verses in the rest of the chapters. New episodes are published each week in the Dhammapada Part II podcast.Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public.
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