Dhammapada: The Arahant
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Chapter Seven of the Buddha’s Blessed Dhammapada portrays the Holy Soul called “The Arahant”.
For someone at the journeys’ end,
Freed from sorrow,
Liberated in all ways,
Released from all bonds,
No fever exists.
The mindful apply themselves,
They don’t amuse themselves in any abode,
Like swans flying from a lake,
They abandon home after home.
Like the path of the birds in the sky,
It is hard to trace the path,
Of those who do not hoard,
Who are judicious with their food,
And whose field is the freedom of emptiness.
Like the path of birds in the sky,
It is hard to trace the path,
Of those who have destroyed their toxins,
Who are unattached to food,
And whose field is the freedom of emptiness.
Even the gods cherish,
Those who are without toxins,
Who have abandoned conceit,
And whose senses are calm,
Like horses well tamed by a charioteer.
For a person who like the earth is untroubled,
Who is well-practiced,
Who is like a pillar of Indra (the sky god),
Who is like a lake without mud,
There is no more wandering.
Calm in mind and speech and action,
And released through right understanding,
Such a person is fully at peace.
The person who has gone beyond faith,
Knows the unmade,
Has severed the link,
Destroyed the potential (for rebirth),
And eliminated clinging,
Is the ultimate person (the “Arahant”).
Inspired Source: The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal
1 Comment
July 16th, 2008 at 6:48 am
the freedom of emptiness : frightening perspective for a christian ,as much as the dissolution of the ego : I be ,I am is an occidental modern concept . In tamil language for instance , there is no grammatical equivalent : the idea is an impersonal availability : there sugar available ,sugar can not be . It is thought ,ot to me comes the thought :the existentialist concept of da sein ,to be as such ,doesn’t exist even in that language .
just a little subsidiary and corroborative comment .
thank you keith .
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