Dhammapada, Chapter 17: riassunto
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In Chapter 17, the speaker urges people to replace anger with love and to restrain harmful actions, speech, and thoughts. The teaching links freedom from suffering to detachment and watchfulness, acknowledges that nobody escapes blame, and defines genuine self-control as discipline of body, tongue, and mind.
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- The speaker urges the abandonment of anger, pride, and attachment, comparing restraint of anger to a driver's control of a runaway chariot.
- Love, goodness, generosity, and truth serve as answers to anger, evil, greed, and lies.
- Harmless sages reach Nirvana, while watchful people who study continually and seek Nirvana end their passions.
- Addressing Atula, the speaker explains that nobody escapes blame or receives only blame or only praise.
- Discerning people, the gods, and Brahman praise the person distinguished by wisdom, knowledge, and virtue.
- The closing verses define self-control through restraint and virtue in bodily actions, speech, and thought.
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What makes someone a true driver in the speaker's comparison?
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