Thag 1 PTS: Thag 1-120 - Single Verses(excerpt)

Tipitaka >> Sutta Pitaka >> Khuddaka Nikaya >> Theragatha >> Single Verses(excerpt) Translated from the Pali by : Thanissaro Bhikkhu  © 2004

Subhuti (Thag 1.1) {Thag 1}
My hut is roofed, comfortable, free of drafts; my mind, well-centered, set free. I remain ardent. So, rain-deva. Go ahead & rain.

Mahakotthika (Thag 1.2) {Thag 2}
Calmed, restrained, giving counsel unruffled, he lifts off evil states of mind — as the breeze, a leaf from a tree.

Kankharevata (Thag 1.3) {Thag 3}
the discernment of the Tathagatas, like a fire ablaze in the night, giving light, giving eyes, <p style="text-align:center;">to those who come, <p style="text-align:center;">subduing their doubt. <p style="text-align:center;">See also: Ud 5.7 (Kankharevata = Revata the Doubter).

Bhalliya (Thag 1.7) {Thag 7}
<p style="text-align:center;">Who scatters the troops <p style="text-align:center;">of the King of Death — <p style="text-align:center;">as a great flood, <p style="text-align:center;">a very weak bridge made of reeds — <p style="text-align:center;">is victorious, <p style="text-align:center;">for his fears are dispersed. <p style="text-align:center;">He's tamed, <p style="text-align:center;">unbound, <p style="text-align:center;">steadfast in himself.

Vanavaccha (Thag 1.13) {Thag 13}
<p style="text-align:center;">The color of blue-dark clouds, <p style="text-align:center;">glistening, <p style="text-align:center;">cooled with the waters <p style="text-align:center;">of clear-flowing streams <p style="text-align:center;">covered with ladybugs: <p style="text-align:center;">those rocky crags <p style="text-align:center;">refresh me.

Vanavaccha's pupil (Thag 1.14) {Thag 14}
<p style="text-align:center;">My preceptor said to me: <p style="text-align:center;">Let's go from here, Sivaka. <p style="text-align:center;">My body stays in the village, <p style="text-align:center;">my mind has gone to the wilds. <p style="text-align:center;">Even though I'm lying down, <p style="text-align:center;">I go. <p style="text-align:center;">There's no tying down <p style="text-align:center;">one who knows.

Belatthasisa (Thag 1.16) {Thag 16}
<p style="text-align:center;">Just as a fine thoroughbred steed, <p style="text-align:center;">with swishing tail & mane <p style="text-align:center;">runs with next-to-no effort, <p style="text-align:center;">so my days & nights <p style="text-align:center;">run with next-to-no effort <p style="text-align:center;">now that I've gained a happiness <p style="text-align:center;">not of the flesh.

Singalapita (Thag 1.18) {Thag 18}
<p style="text-align:center;">There was an heir to the One Awakened, <p style="text-align:center;">a monk in the Bhesakala forest, <p style="text-align:center;">who suffused this whole earth <p style="text-align:center;">with the perception of <p style="text-align:center;">"bones." <p style="text-align:center;">Quickly, I'd say, he abandoned <p style="text-align:center;">sensual passion.

Nigrodha (Thag 1.21) {Thag 21}
<p style="text-align:center;">I'm not afraid of danger, <p style="text-align:center;">of fear. <p style="text-align:center;">Our Teacher's adept <p style="text-align:center;">in the Deathless. <p style="text-align:center;">Where danger, where fear <p style="text-align:center;">do not remain: <p style="text-align:center;">that's the path <p style="text-align:center;">by which the monks go.

Cittaka (Thag 1.22) {Thag 22}
<p style="text-align:center;">Peacocks, <p style="text-align:center;">crested, blue, with gorgeous necks, <p style="text-align:center;">cry out <p style="text-align:center;">in the Karamvi woods, <p style="text-align:center;">thrilled by the cold wind. <p style="text-align:center;">They awaken the sleeper <p style="text-align:center;">to meditate.

Gosala (Thag 1.23) {Thag 23}
<p style="text-align:center;">I — having eaten honey-rice <p style="text-align:center;">in a bamboo patch <p style="text-align:center;">and rightly grasping the aggregates' <p style="text-align:center;">arising-disbanding — <p style="text-align:center;">will return to the hillside, intent <p style="text-align:center;">on seclusion.

Nandiya (to Mara) (Thag 1.25) {Thag 25}
<p style="text-align:center;">Like splendor, his mind, <p style="text-align:center;">continually fruitful: <p style="text-align:center;">Attack a monk like that, <p style="text-align:center;">you Dark One, <p style="text-align:center;">and you'll fall <p style="text-align:center;">into pain.

Abhaya (Thag 1.26) {Thag 26}
<p style="text-align:center;">Hearing the well-spoken words <p style="text-align:center;">of the Awakened One, <p style="text-align:center;">Kinsman of the Sun, <p style="text-align:center;">I pierced what is subtle — <p style="text-align:center;">as if, with an arrow, <p style="text-align:center;">the tip of a horse-tail hair.

Harita (Thag 1.29) {Thag 29}
<p style="text-align:center;">Harita, <p style="text-align:center;">raise yourself up- <p style="text-align:center;">right <p style="text-align:center;">and, straightening your mind <p style="text-align:center;">— like a fletcher, an arrow — <p style="text-align:center;">shatter ignorance <p style="text-align:center;">to bits.

Suppiya (Thag 1.32) {Thag 32}
<p style="text-align:center;">I'll make a trade: <p style="text-align:center;">aging for the Ageless, <p style="text-align:center;">burning for the Unbound: <p style="text-align:center;">the highest peace, <p style="text-align:center;">the unexcelled rest <p style="text-align:center;">from the yoke.

Tissa (Thag 1.39) {Thag 39}
<p style="text-align:center;">As if struck by a sword, <p style="text-align:center;">as if his head were on fire, <p style="text-align:center;">a monk should live the wandering life <p style="text-align:center;">— mindful — <p style="text-align:center;">for the abandoning of sensual passion.

Sirivaddha (Thag 1.41) {Thag 41}
<p style="text-align:center;">Lightning lands on the cleft <p style="text-align:center;">between Vebhara & Pandava, <p style="text-align:center;">but, <p style="text-align:center;">having gone to the cleft in the mountains, <p style="text-align:center;">he's absorbed in jhana — the son <p style="text-align:center;">of the one without compare, <p style="text-align:center;">the one who is Such.

Sumangala (Thag 1.43) {Thag 43}
<p style="text-align:center;">So freed! So freed! <p style="text-align:center;">So thoroughly freed am I <p style="text-align:center;">from three crooked things: <p style="text-align:center;">my sickles, my shovels, my plows. <p style="text-align:center;">Even if they were here, <p style="text-align:center;">right here, <p style="text-align:center;">I'd be done with them, <p style="text-align:center;">done. <p style="text-align:center;">Do jhana, Sumangala. <p style="text-align:center;">Do jhana, Sumangala. <p style="text-align:center;">Sumangala, stay heedful.

Ramaneyyaka (Thag 1.49) {Thag 49}
<p style="text-align:center;">Even with all the whistles & whistling, <p style="text-align:center;">the calls of the birds, <p style="text-align:center;">this, my mind, doesn't waver, <p style="text-align:center;">for my delight is in <p style="text-align:center;">oneness.

Vimala (Thag 1.50) {Thag 50}
<p style="text-align:center;">The earth's sprinkled <p style="text-align:center;">with rain, wind <p style="text-align:center;">is blowing, lightning <p style="text-align:center;">wanders the sky, <p style="text-align:center;">but my thoughts are stilled, <p style="text-align:center;">well-centered <p style="text-align:center;">my mind.

Kutiviharin (Thag 1.56) {Thag 56}
<p style="text-align:center;">Who's in the hut? <p style="text-align:center;">A monk's in the hut — <p style="text-align:center;">free from passion, <p style="text-align:center;">with well-centered mind. <p style="text-align:center;">Know this, my friend: <p style="text-align:center;">The hut you built <p style="text-align:center;">wasn't wasted.

Kutiviharin (Thag 1.57) {Thag 57}
<p style="text-align:center;">This was your old hut, <p style="text-align:center;">and you aspire to another, <p style="text-align:center;">new hut. <p style="text-align:center;">Discard your hope for a hut, monk. <p style="text-align:center;">A new hut will be <p style="text-align:center;">painful all over again.

Vappa (Thag 1.61) {Thag 61}
<p style="text-align:center;">One who sees <p style="text-align:center;">sees who sees, <p style="text-align:center;">sees who doesn't. <p style="text-align:center;">One who doesn't see <p style="text-align:center;">doesn't <p style="text-align:center;">see who sees <p style="text-align:center;">or who doesn't.

Ekuddaniya (Thag 1.68) {Thag 68}
<p style="text-align:center;">Exalted in mind & heedful: <p style="text-align:center;">a sage trained in sagacity's ways. <p style="text-align:center;">He has no sorrows, one who is Such, <p style="text-align:center;">calmed & ever mindful.

Manava (Thag 1.73) {Thag 73}
<p style="text-align:center;">On seeing an old person; <p style="text-align:center;">& <p style="text-align:center;">a person in pain, diseased; <p style="text-align:center;">& <p style="text-align:center;">a person dead, gone to life's end, <p style="text-align:center;">I left <p style="text-align:center;">for the life gone forth, <p style="text-align:center;">abandoning the sensuality <p style="text-align:center;">that entices the heart.

Susarada (Thag 1.75) {Thag 75}
<p style="text-align:center;">Good the sight <p style="text-align:center;">of the well-rectified: <p style="text-align:center;">Doubt is cut off, <p style="text-align:center;">intelligence grows. <p style="text-align:center;">Even fools <p style="text-align:center;">they make wise — <p style="text-align:center;">so the company of the true <p style="text-align:center;">is good.

Nita (Thag 1.84) {Thag 84}
<p style="text-align:center;">Asleep the whole night, <p style="text-align:center;">delighting in company by day: <p style="text-align:center;">when, when <p style="text-align:center;">will the fool <p style="text-align:center;">bring suffering & stress <p style="text-align:center;">to an end?

Sunaga (Thag 1.85) {Thag 85}
<p style="text-align:center;">Adept in a theme for the mind, <p style="text-align:center;">sensing the savor of solitude, <p style="text-align:center;">practicing jhana, <p style="text-align:center;">masterful, mindful, <p style="text-align:center;">you'd attain a pleasure <p style="text-align:center;">not of the flesh.

Nagita (Thag 1.86) {Thag 86}
<p style="text-align:center;">Outside of this path, <p style="text-align:center;">the path of the many <p style="text-align:center;">who teach other things <p style="text-align:center;">doesn't go to Unbinding <p style="text-align:center;">as does this: <p style="text-align:center;">Thus the Blessed One <p style="text-align:center;">instructs the Community, <p style="text-align:center;">truly showing the palms of his hands. <p style="text-align:center;">Note : This is a reference to the fact that the Buddha was an "open-handed" teacher who held nothing back. See DN 16. The suttas addressed to Nagita are among the most plain-spoken passages in the Canon. See AN 5.30, AN 6.42, and AN 8.86.

Eraka (Thag 1.93) {Thag 93}
<p style="text-align:center;">Sensual pleasures are stressful, <p style="text-align:center;">Eraka. <p style="text-align:center;">Sensual pleasures aren't ease. <p style="text-align:center;">Whoever loves sensual pleasures <p style="text-align:center;">loves stress, Eraka. <p style="text-align:center;">Whoever doesn't, <p style="text-align:center;">doesn't love stress.

Cakkhupala (Thag 1.95) {Thag 95}
<p style="text-align:center;">I'm blind, <p style="text-align:center;">my eyes are destroyed. <p style="text-align:center;">I've stumbled <p style="text-align:center;">on a wilderness track. <p style="text-align:center;">Even <p style="text-align:center;">if I must crawl, <p style="text-align:center;">I'll go on, <p style="text-align:center;">but not with an evil companion.

Khitaka (Thag 1.104) {Thag 104}
<p style="text-align:center;">How light my body! <p style="text-align:center;">Touched by abundant <p style="text-align:center;">rapture & bliss, <p style="text-align:center;">— like a cotton tuft <p style="text-align:center;">borne on the breeze — <p style="text-align:center;">it seems to be floating <p style="text-align:center;">— my body!

Jenta (Thag 1.111) {Thag 111}
<p style="text-align:center;">Going forth is hard; <p style="text-align:center;">houses are hard places to live; <p style="text-align:center;">the Dhamma is deep; <p style="text-align:center;">wealth, hard to obtain; <p style="text-align:center;">it's hard to keep going <p style="text-align:center;">with whatever we get: <p style="text-align:center;">so it's right that we ponder <p style="text-align:center;">continually <p style="text-align:center;">continual <p style="text-align:center;">inconstancy.

Vanavaccha (Thag 1.113) {Thag 113}
<p style="text-align:center;">With clear waters & <p style="text-align:center;">massive boulders, <p style="text-align:center;">frequented by monkeys & <p style="text-align:center;">deer, <p style="text-align:center;">covered with moss & <p style="text-align:center;">water weeds, <p style="text-align:center;">those rocky crags refresh me.

Kimbila (Thag 1.118) {Thag 118}
<p style="text-align:center;">As if sent by a curse, <p style="text-align:center;">it drops on us — <p style="text-align:center;">aging. <p style="text-align:center;">The body seems other, <p style="text-align:center;">though it's still the same one. <p style="text-align:center;">I'm still here <p style="text-align:center;">& have never been absent from it, <p style="text-align:center;">but I remember myself <p style="text-align:center;">as if somebody else's.

Isidatta (Thag 1.120) {Thag 120}
<p style="text-align:center;">The five aggregates, <p style="text-align:center;">having been comprehended, <p style="text-align:center;">stand with their root <p style="text-align:center;">cut through. <p style="text-align:center;">For me <p style="text-align:center;">the ending of stress <p style="text-align:center;">is reached; <p style="text-align:center;">the ending of fermentations, <p style="text-align:center;">attained.