The Dhammapada, an anthology of 423 verses, compiled approximately 600 years before Christ.
Belong to the Khuddaka Nikaya of the sacred Buddhist scripture, the Tipitaka.
The Buddha enunciated his Dhamma in two different forms.
One approach was in philosophical terms, incisive and analytical.
Each verse was prompted by a particular episode, accounts of which are preserved in the Dhammapada Atthakatha, one of the commentaries on the Pali canon.
1
Mind precedes all mental states.
Mind is there 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.
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