Verses of the Senior Monks 6.12

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 6.12
2. The Book of the Sixes
3. Chapter One
4. Brahmadatta
5. Whence anger for one free of anger,
6. tamed, living justly,
7. freed by right knowledge,
8. peaceful and unaffected?
9. When you get angry at an angry person
10. you just make things worse for yourself.
11. When you don’t get angry at an angry person
12. you win a battle hard to win.
13. When you know that the other is angry,
14. you act for the good of both
15. yourself and the other
16. if you’re mindful and stay calm.
17. People unfamiliar with the teaching
18. consider one who heals both
19. oneself and the other
20. to be a fool.
21. If anger arises in you,
22. reflect on the simile of the saw;
23. if craving for flavors arises in you,
24. remember the simile of the child’s flesh.
25. If your mind runs off
26. to sensual pleasures and future lives,
27. quickly curb it with mindfulness,
28. as one would curb a greedy cow eating grain.