Thag 3.15 — Hārita (2nd)

English translation by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

Translation

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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.