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47. Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is
distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM
46. He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it
is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow
of Mara, and never see the king of death. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM
45. The disciple will overcome the earth, and the world of Yama, and
the world of the gods. The disciple will find out the plainly shown
path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right) flower. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM
44. Who shall overcome this earth, and the world of Yama (the lord of
the departed), and the world of the gods? Who shall find out the
plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right)
flower? DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM
42. Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a
wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM
