{"product_id":"the-dhammapada-verses-on-the-way-modern-library","title":"The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrembling and quivering is the mind  Difficult to guard and hard to restrain. The person of wisdom sets it straight  As a fletcher does an arrow.  The Dhammapada introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago  when the master teacher emerged from his long silence to illuminate for his followers the substance of humankinds deepest and most abiding concerns. The nature of the self  the value of relationships  the importance of moment-to-moment awareness  the destructiveness of anger  the suffering that attends attachment  the ambiguity of the earths beauty  the inevitability of aging  the certainty of deaththese dilemmas preoccupy us today as they did centuries ago. No other spiritual texts speak about them more clearly and profoundly than does the Dhammapada.  In this elegant new translation  Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttasthe presumed earliest discourses of the Buddhato bring us the heartwood of Buddhism  words as compelling today as when the Buddha first spoke them. On violence: All tremble before violence.\/ All fear death.\/ Having done the same yourself \/ you should neither harm nor kill. On ignorance: An uninstructed person\/ ages like an ox \/ his bulk increases \/ his insight does not. On skillfulness: A person is not skilled\/ just because he talks a lot.\/ Peaceful  friendly  secure\/ that one is called skilled.  In 423 verses gathered by subject into chapters  the editor offers us a distillation of core Buddhist teachings that constitutes a prescription for enlightened living  even in the twenty-first century. He also includes a brilliantly informative guide to the versesa chapter-by-chapter explication that greatly enhances our understanding of them. The text  at every turn  points to practical applications that lead to freedom from fear and suffering  toward the human state of spiritual virtuosity known as awakening.  Glenn Walliss translation is an inspired successor to earlier versions of the suttas. Even those readers who are well acquainted with the Dhammapada will be enriched by this fresh encounter with a classic text\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945782800437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679643079","price":31.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679643074.jpg?v=1769910712","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dhammapada-verses-on-the-way-modern-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}