J33 Sammodamana Jataka -- The Wages of Strife

Jātaka 33 Sammodamana Jataka The Wages of Strife

[MORAL Divisive speech; The power of unity]

[READABILITY Intermediate II]


How do we enhance personal wellbeing and harmony in the community?        

  • Treat each other with loving-kindness in what we do, whether we are alone or with others.
  • Treat each other with loving-kindness in what we say, whether we are alone or with others.
  • Treat each other with loving-kindness in what we think, whether we are alone or with others.
  • Share what we have with people of good virtues in the community.
  • Live with people who train themselves in concentration of mind and have the same good and pure conduct which are praised by the wise, whether they are alone or with others.
  • Live with people who preserve the same noble view leading to liberation and the destruction of suffering, whether they are alone or with others.

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