Overcoming Anger

Who bears within no enmity: "He has abused and beaten me, defeated me and plundered me", hate is quite allayed for them.

Explanation:

Living in human society, people often quarrel with one another. When such conflicts occur, people often keep thinking about the wrongs done to them by others. When that happens, their anger tends to grow. But in those who forgive and forget the wrongs done to them, anger quickly vanishes. They are then at peace.

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Uncontrolled Hatred Leads to Harm

Who bears within them enmity: "He has abused and beaten me, defeated me and plundered me", hate is not allayed for them.

Explanation:

When a person holds that he was insulted, assaulted, defeated, or robbed, his anger continues to increase. The anger such a person has no way of subsiding. The more he goes over his imaginary trouble the greater becomes his desire to avenge it.

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Happiness Follows the Doer of Good

Mind precedes all knowables, mind's their chief, mind-made are they. If with a clear, and confident mind one should speak and act as one's shadow ne'er departing.

Explanation:

All that man experiences springs out of his thoughts. If his thoughts are good, the words and the deeds will also be good. The result of good thoughts , words and deeds will be happiness. This happiness will never leave the person whose thoughts are good. Happiness will always follow him like his shadow that never leaves him..

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Suffering Follows the Evil-Doer

Mind precedes all knowables, mind's their chief, mind-made are they.
If with a corrupted mind one should either speak or act dukkha follows caused by that, as does the wheel the ox's hoof.

Explanation:

All that we experience begins with thought. Our words and deeds spring from thought. If we speak or act with evil thoughts, unpleasant circumstances and experiences inevitably result. Wherever we go, we create bad circumstances because we carry bad thoughts. This is very much like the wheel of a cart following the hoofs of the ox yoked to the cart. The cart-wheel, along with the heavy load of the cart, keeps following the draught oxen. The animal is bound to this heavy load and cannot leave it.

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