Basket of Conduct 18

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1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter on an Elephant
3. The Perfection of Ethics (8th)
4. The Deity Dhamma’s Conduct
5. “Then again when I was
6. of great retinue and psychic power,
7. a great spirit named Dhamma,
8. I had sympathy for the whole world.
9. Establishing the populace
10. in the ten ways of skillful deeds,
11. I wandered from village to town,
12. with friends and associates.
13. A wicked, miserly spirit
14. promoting the ten wicked ways
15. was also wandering the earth
16. with friends and associates.
17. The righteous and unrighteous,
18. we were each other’s foe.
19. Slamming chariot shafts,
20. we collided together.
21. A dreadful quarrel ensued
22. between the good and the ill,
23. a great war loomed
24. aiming to push the other off the road.
25. If I had been upset with him,
26. if I had broken my asceticism,
27. I could have reduced him to dust,
28. together with his companions.
29. Nevertheless, for the sake of guarding my ethics,
30. I quelled my mind.
31. I left the road with my folk,
32. giving it to the wicked one.
33. As soon as I left the path,
34. and I had quelled my mind,
35. the earth opened up
36. for that wicked spirit.”