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116. Be quick in goodness;
From wrong hold back your thought.
Indeed, of one performing the good tardily,
The mind delights in wrong.
117. Should a person do a wrong,
Let him not do it again and again.
Let him not form a desire toward it.
A suffering is the accumulation of wrong.
118. Should a person do some good,
Let him do it again and again.
Let him form a desire toward it.
A happiness is the accumulation of good.
119. Even a wrongdoer experiences what is good
As long as the detrimental has not matured.
But when the detrimental is matured,
The wrongdoer then experiences the detrimental.
120. Even the good one experiences the detrimental.
As long as the good is not matured.
But when the good is matured,
Then the good one experiences the good.
121. Think not triflingly of wrong,
“It will not come to me!”
With falling drops of water,
Even a waterpot is filled.
A childish one is filled with wrong,
Acquiring bit by bit.
122. Think not triflingly of good,
“It will not come to me!”
With falling drops of water,
Even a waterpot is filled.
A wise one is filled with good,
Acquiring bit by bit.
123. One would avoid wrongs,
Like the rich merchant with small caravan
The fearful road;
Like one who loves life, poison.
124. If on the hand a wound were not,
One could carry poison with [that] hand.
Poison does not follow one without a wound.
No wrong there is for one not doing it.
125. Whoever offends an inoffensive man,
A pure person without blemish,
The wrong recoils on just that childish one,
Like fine dust hurled against the wind.
126. Some are born in a womb,
Wrongdoers, in hell.
Those of good course go to heaven,
To Nibbana those without influxes.
127. That spot in the world is not found,
Neither in the sky nor in the ocean’s depths,
Nor having entered into a cleft in mountains,
Where abiding, one would be released from the bad deed.
128. That spot one does not find,
Neither in the sky nor in the ocean’s depths,
Nor having entered into a cleft in mountains,
Where abiding, death would not overwhelm one.