Dhammapada - Chapter 14 (refuge excerpt): Buddhavagga - The Buddha

A Saddhamma Study Group translation from the Pāḷi text.
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The non-doing of all evil,
the ordination into the wholesome;183
the purifying of one's own states of mind
this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Patience is the highest austere endurance,
nibbana is the foremost, so say the Buddhas; 184
the one gone forth who harms others, vexing [them];
is certainly not a samana.

Not insulting, not injuring,
being restrained in the patimokkha; 185
knowing the measure in food,
and engaging in the higher mind
in solitary lodgings,
this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ
kusalassa upasampadā 183
sacittapariyodapanaṃ
etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ.

khantī paramaṃ tapo titikkhā
nibbāṇaṃ paramaṃ vadanti buddhā 184
na hi pabbajito parūpaghātī
samaṇo hoti paraṃ viheṭhayanto.

anūpavādo anūpaghāto
pātimokkhe ca saṃvaro 185
mattaññutā ca bhattasmiṃ
pantañca sayanāsanaṃ
adhicitte ca āyogo
etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ.