Thag 3:15 · Hārita
Whoever wants to do later
what he should have done first,
falls away from the easeful state
& later repents.
One should speak
as one would act,
& not
as one wouldn’t.
When one speaks without acting,
the wise, they can tell.
How very easeful:
unbinding,
as taught by the Rightly
Self-awakened One—
sorrowless,
dustless,
secure,
where stress
& suffering
cease.
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
