Thag 14.2 PTS: Thag 659-672- Godatta

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Thag 14.2 PTS: Thag 659-672- Godatta
Just as a fine, well-bred bull yoked to a load, enduring his load, crushed by the heavy burden, doesn't throw down his yoke; so, too, those who are filled with discernment — as the ocean, with water — don't look down on others. This is nobility among beings.

Having fallen in time under the sway of time, having come under the sway from becoming & non-, people fall subject to pain & they grieve.

<p style="text-align:center;">Elated by the causes of pleasure, <p style="text-align:center;">& cast down by causes of pain, <p style="text-align:center;">fools are destroyed by both, <p style="text-align:center;">not seeing them for what they are. <p style="text-align:center;">While those who, in the midst of <p style="text-align:center;">pleasure & pain <p style="text-align:center;">have gone past the seamstress of craving, <p style="text-align:center;">stand firm <p style="text-align:center;">like a boundary pillar, <p style="text-align:center;">neither elated nor cast down.

<p style="text-align:center;">Not to gain or loss <p style="text-align:center;">not to status or honor, <p style="text-align:center;">not to praise or blame, <p style="text-align:center;">not to pleasure or pain: <p style="text-align:center;">everywhere <p style="text-align:center;">they do not adhere — <p style="text-align:center;">like a water bead <p style="text-align:center;">on a lotus. <p style="text-align:center;">Everywhere <p style="text-align:center;">they are happy, the enlightened, <p style="text-align:center;">everywhere <p style="text-align:center;">un-defeated.

<p style="text-align:center;">No matter what <p style="text-align:center;">the unrighteous gain <p style="text-align:center;">or the righteous loss, <p style="text-align:center;">righteous loss is better <p style="text-align:center;">than if there were unrighteous gain. <p style="text-align:center;">No matter what <p style="text-align:center;">the status of the unaware <p style="text-align:center;">or the lowliness of those who know, <p style="text-align:center;">the lowliness of those who know <p style="text-align:center;">is better, <p style="text-align:center;">not the status of those <p style="text-align:center;">unaware. <p style="text-align:center;">No matter what <p style="text-align:center;">the praise from fools <p style="text-align:center;">or the censure from those who know, <p style="text-align:center;">the censure from those who know <p style="text-align:center;">is better <p style="text-align:center;">than if there were praise <p style="text-align:center;">from fools. <p style="text-align:center;">And as for the pleasure <p style="text-align:center;">from sensuality <p style="text-align:center;">and the pain from seclusion, <p style="text-align:center;">the pain from seclusion <p style="text-align:center;">is better <p style="text-align:center;">than if there were pleasure <p style="text-align:center;">from sensuality. <p style="text-align:center;">And as for living through unrighteousness <p style="text-align:center;">and dying for righteousness, <p style="text-align:center;">dying for righteousness <p style="text-align:center;">is better, <p style="text-align:center;">than if one were to live <p style="text-align:center;">through unrighteousness.

<p style="text-align:center;">Those who've abandoned <p style="text-align:center;">sensuality & anger, <p style="text-align:center;">whose minds are calmed <p style="text-align:center;">from becoming & non-, <p style="text-align:center;">go through the world <p style="text-align:center;">unattached. <p style="text-align:center;">For them there is nothing <p style="text-align:center;">dear or undear. <p style="text-align:center;">Developing <p style="text-align:center;">the factors for Awakening, <p style="text-align:center;">faculties, <p style="text-align:center;">& strengths, <p style="text-align:center;">attaining the foremost peace, <p style="text-align:center;">without fermentation, they <p style="text-align:center;">are entirely <p style="text-align:center;">Unbound.