Sammendrag av Dhammapada på Chapter 10

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1. The teaching urges people to recognize others’ fear and love of life and to avoid killing or causing harm.
2. It contrasts the happiness after death of those who avoid violence with the unhappiness of those who inflict it.
3. Harsh speech invites painful replies, while freedom from conflict is compared to a broken gong’s silence.
4. Age and Death drive human lives onward, and harmful deeds bring suffering upon their doers.
5. Outward austerities cannot purify someone ruled by desire, while calm and restraint mark a true religious practitioner.
6. The teaching urges alert effort and compares self-discipline to workers shaping water, arrows, and wood.

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The comparison makes self-discipline an active practice. It closes the teaching by connecting moral development with deliberate, skilled work.

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