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Social Conduct and Social Discipline

Loka Niti

Lesson - 1

The Sage

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 * One who is lazy gains no knowledge.
 * One who has no knowledge gains no wealth.
 * One who has no wealth has no good companion.
 * One who has no companion has no solace.
 * One who has no solace cannot gain merit.
 * How can one find the way to Nirvana without good deeds?
 * In this world, there is no wealth equal to learning.
 * Thieves cannot steal learning.
 * Learning is the true friend and can give happiness.
 * Never think of knowledge and wisdom as little.
 * Seek it and store it in the mind.
 * Note that anthills are built with small particles of dust and incessantly falling raindrops, when collected, can fill a big pot.
 * Never think of arts and science as trivial.
 * When learnt completely, even one kind of proficiency can be used as livelihood.
 * There is no ruby in every mountain.
 * There is no pearl in every elephant.
 * There is no sandalwood in every forest.
 * There is no sage in every place.
 * One who wants knowledge should get to the wise and learn seriously.
 * As a drum emits sound when struck the learned responds only when asked.
 * Asked or not, the uneducated speaks too much.
 * Chronicled knowledge shall not be regarded as one's own.
 * Property in the hands of other shall not be regarded as one's own.
 * Being cultured or not can be known by behavior.
 * Being learned or not can be known by speech.
 * One with scanty knowledge tends to think a little learning a lot.
 * It is just as a puny frog, not having seen an ocean, thinks a little well of water a lot.
 * Pursue education in early age.
 * Pursue wealth in middle age.
 * Pursue Dhamma in old age.
 * One without knowledge has to carry others' burden.
 * One who has knowledge is honored by others.
 * So strive daily to get knowledge.
 * Parents must educate the children while young.
 * If not, they will be unbecoming among others as paddy-bird is unbecoming among hamsas.
 * For not being educated, son and parents can turn out to be an enemy.
 * Who sharpens the thorn to be pointed? who put eyedrops the deer's eye to be shiny? Who put scent in the lily growing in mud to be fragrant?
 * Those may happen by nature.
 * The good descendants should themselves try without help.
 * A betel-quid without lime.
 * Surry without salt.
 * Dressing up flauntingly without wealth.
 * Composing verse without education.
 * Listening and noting well enriches knowledge.
 * Knowledge enhances progress.
 * Man or cattle are capable of sleeping, eating or having sex.
 * Education is the quality where man excels.
 * There is no friend like learning.
 * There is no enemy like disease.
 * A hmasa is out of place among crows.
 * A lion is out of place among cattle.
 * A horse is out of place among donkeys.
 * A learned man is out of place among the bad.
 * Just as the ladle knows not the taste of the curry, the foolish knows not Dhamma, even though close to the wise for life.
 * Just as the tongue knows the taste of the curry, so also does the clever one know the Dhamma promptly, even by associating shortly with the wise.
 * Go not to the battle field without arms.
 * speak not without references to treatises.
 * Travel not afar without companion.
 * Speak appropriately when opportune.
 * Find one who is suited and should be loved.
 * Without wealth, be not excessive in eating.
 * Without strength, love not fighting.
 * Without learning, speak not too much.
 * Don't visit another's house frequently without being invited.
 * Don't talk too much without being asked.
 * Don't extol and boast of oneself.(Don't blow one's own trumpet.)
 * A half-empty vessel makes more sound.
 * A person not fully educated tends to show off.
 * The ocean is not contented in receiving water.
 * The eye is not contented in seeing the beloved.
 * The wise is not contented in good speech.
 * Though fully endowed with good looks and youthfulness he who has no knowledge is ungraceful. It is like pauk-pwint( Pauk Flower) without scent.
 * Even the son of low parentage can be the king's counselor.
 * Even the son of the foolish can be a sage.
 * Even the son of a poor man can be rich.
 * So don't be contemptuous of a man.
 * The pupil who wants knowledge and studies too many cannot recite what he studied, just like dumb one who can not retell the dream.
 * The pot-maker strikes the pot not to break it, but to make it fine.
 * So also the teacher admonishes the pupils not to hurt them, but to enhance the benefit of learning.
 * Pauk leaf that wraps Taung Zalat flower smells fragrant like that flower.
 * So also is the same for those who associate with the wise.
 * As the egret is ungraceful among Hamsas, so also is the foolish in an assembly.