Chapter 18. Impurities

235. Nowa withered leaf are you and now Death's men draw near, now you stand at the parting gates but waybread you have none.



236. Make an island of yourself, quickly strive and wise become, freed from stain and passionless to go to the pure Abodes.



237. Even now the end drawsnear, to the presence of death you've fared. Along the path's no place for rest and waybread you have none.



238. Make an is land of yourself, quickly strive and wise become, fred from stain and passionless you'll not return, take flesh, decay.



239. Little by little, time after time, successivelythen let the sage blow away all blemishes justas a smith with silver.



240. As rust arisen out of iron itself tha iron eats away, so kammas done beyond what's wise lead to a state of woe.



241. For oral tradition, non-recitation, in household life, non-exertion, the fair of form when slovenly, a sentry's sloth: all blemishes.



242. In Mankind, conduct culpable, with givers, avariciousness, all blemishes these evil things in thes world or the next.



243. More basic than these blemishes is ignorance, the worst of all. Abandoning this blemish then, be free of blemish, monks!



244. Easy the life for a shameless one who bold and forward as a crow, is slanderer and braggart too: this one's completely stained.



245. But hard the life of a modest one who always seeks for purity, who's cheerful though no braggart, clean-living and discerning.



246. In the world who life destroys, who words of falsity speaks, who takes what is not freely given to another's partner goes.



247. Or has distilled, fermented drinks: Who with abandon follows these extirpates the root of self even here in this very world.



248. Therefore friend remember this; Hard to restrain are evil acts, don't le greed and wickedness down drag you long in dukkha.



249. People give as they have faith, as they are bright with joyfulness. Who's troubled overgifts recived, the food and drink that others get, neither in daytime nor by night will come to a colllected mind.



250. But whw has severed envy's mind , uprooted it, destroyed entire, indeed in dytime and by night will come to a collected mind.



251. There is no fire like lust, nought seizes like aversion, unequalled is delusion's net, no river's like to craving.



252. Other's faults are easy to see yet hard it is to see one's own, and so one winnows just like chaff the faults of other people, while hiding away those of one's own as crafty cheat the losing throw.



253. Who's always seeing other's faults, taking offence, censorious,pollutions spread for such a one who's far from their exhaustion.



254. In skies above there is no path, no peaceful one's without, in manifoldness do foldk delight, Tathagatas are manifold-free.



255. In skies above there is no path, no peaceful one's without, nothing conditioned ever lasts, no Buddha's ever shaken.

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