Twenty-Fifth Chapter: Dhammapada
The Monk
360-61. Train your eyes and ears, train your nose and tongue. Senses are friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds; train your tongue in words and train your mind in thoughts. When a monk trains himself he leaves sorrows behind.
362. The true monk is the one who has trained [...]
Twenty-Fourth Chapter: Dhammapada
Compulsive Cravings
334. The cravings of a thoughtless man grow like a creeper. Like a monkey he jumps from one life to another, looking for fruit in the forest.
335-36. When a man’s cravings overcome him, his sorrows increase like the entangled creeper. But when a man overcomes his cravings his sorrows fall away like [...]
Twenty-Third Chapter: Dhammapada
Endurance
320. I will endure harsh words as the elephant endures arrows on the battlefield. People often lack self-control.
321. Only trained elephants go to the battlefield, only a trained elephant carries the king. The best among men are those who have trained their mind to endure harsh words patiently.
322-23. Mules are good [...]