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Full Idea
Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks: these three steps lead you to the gods
Gist of Idea
Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks
Source
Anon (Dham) (The DhammaPada [c.250 BCE], §17.224)
Book Ref
'The DhammaPada', ed/tr. Mascaro,Juan [Penguin 1973], p.68
A Reaction
I don't recall either the Old or New Testament, or the Koran, placing great emphasis on speaking the truth. The injunction to give is not so simple. Give to greedy children, to alcoholics, to criminals, to the rich, to fools, to yourself?
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| 7601 | Life is suffering, from which only compassion, gentleness, truth and sobriety can save us [Buddha] |
| 7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7607 | Nagarjuna and others pronounced the world of experience to be an illusion [Nagarjuna, by Armstrong,K] |
| 18990 | Nirvana means safety from sense experience, and hindus and buddhists are just afraid of life [James] |
| 7901 | 'Buddha' just means a person who is fully enlightened about life [Conze] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
| 23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |
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