41 How to Get What You Want

How To Get What You Want?

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

Want to stop being foolish?
Then examine everything carefully.

Want Dhammic religion?
Then be tolerant and patient.

Want to realize the fruits of the path?
Then don’t create any “self.”

Want to be happy everywhere?
Then share, aid, and support others.

Want to honor your parents?
Don’t abandon the family’s duties.

Want to be rich in goodness?
Don’t do anything obsessively.

Want not to waste this human birth?
Then know how to be truly human.

Want to be cool?
Then bathe in the Dhamma.

Want to finish off karmic retribution?
Must have no “me” or “mine” left.

Not want any suffering to remain?
Must make it all free-void-empty.

Want to finish it once and for all?
Must realize remainderless quenching.

Want happiness without any pain?
Must Nibbanam paramam sukham.*

(*) Nibbanam paramam sukham means “Nibbana is the supreme happiness.”

 

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