The Dhammapada - The Wise

If one happens to meet

an Accomplished One during this incarnation,

offer to such a Buddha

one's body, speech and mind

for the service of revealing the hidden

nature of Buddhahood to all sadhakas.

Allowing such a Buddha to speak

wonderful truths regarding the Emptiness of Reality,

even if at first unpleasant to one's sense of self,

enthusiastically love such a practitioner of the Dharma.

Some may react with the aversion

of one who is internally exhausted

by the incessant demands of the senses

and the fiery pangs of material desires,

but to those who are situated in goodness,

the false acharyas slip away as often as time slips away.

Making friends with the Inexhaustible Truth of Emptiness,

one will live with the Joys of a Realized Mind.

As expert in irrigating

the watery tides of one's emotions,

the arrow like one pointedness of mind

shoots for the goal of equanimity,

reaching the distant shore

of the Nothingness that is the Bliss of Nirvana.

As expert in deflating the subtle attacks

of the mind's essential dualism,

the words which compose the Dharma

makes one as internally composed

as a windless night and as immobile as a churnless ocean.

Desiring neither the enjoyments of an illusory self

nor vainly grasping after ideals that are not in harmony

with the Dharma, the Accomplished Ones keep on walking

no matter what gets in their way.

When properly taught

by either the Buddha within or the Buddha without,

the Emptiness of Nirvana and Samsara

becomes as clear as the Light of Freedom's Day.

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