#thepairs

Not by hatred are hatreds ever pacified here (in the world). They are pacified by love. This is the eternal law.

Those who have known the real as the real, and the unreal as the unreal, they, moving in the sphere of right thought, will attain the real.

Mind precedes all mental states. The mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

He who for his own benefit recites even a little of the (canonical) literature but lives in accordance with its principles, abandoning craving, hatred, and delusion, possessed of right knowledge, with mind well freed, clinging to nothing in this or any other world, he is enriched by the ascetic life.

The evildoer burns in both (worlds); he burns ‘here’ and he burns ‘there’. He burns (with remorse) thinking he has done evil, and he burns (with suffering) having gone (after death) to an evil state.

The doer of good delights in both (worlds); he delights ‘here’ and he delights ‘there’. He delights (in this life) thinking he has done good and he delights (after death) having gone to a state of happiness.

The doer of good rejoices in both (worlds); he rejoices ‘here’ and he rejoices ‘there’. He rejoices and is glad seeing his own pure deeds.

Those who take the unreal for the real, and who in the real see the unreal, they, wandering in the sphere of wrong thought, will not attain the real.