The Brahmin
Brahmin Ascetic in the present day
Cut the stream and go across, abandon sensuality, brahmin. When you have achieved the stilling of the activities of the mind, you will know the unconditioned, brahmin.
When a brahmin has crossed beyond duality, then all the fetters of such a seer come to an end.
When a man knows no this shore, other shore, or both — such a one, free from anxiety, liberated, that is what I call a brahmin.
Meditating, free from stain, settled in mind, with job accomplished, without inflowing thoughts, and having achieved the supreme purpose — that is what I call a brahmin.
By day it is the sun which shines, at night the moon shines forth. A warrior shines in his armour, and a brahmin shines in meditation. But at all times, by day and by night, the Buddha shines in his glory.
A brahmin is called so by breaking with evil deeds. It is by pious behaviour that a man is called a man of religion, and by casting out blemishes one is called one gone forth.
One should not strike a brahmin, and nor should a brahmin lose his temper. Shame on him who strikes a brahmin, and shame on him who loses his temper because of it.
Nothing is better in a brahmin than this — that he restrains his mind from pleasurable things. Suffering disappears for him to the same extent that he gets rid of thoughts of harming anyone.
He who does no wrong with body, speech or mind, but is restrained in all three spheres — that is what I call a brahmin.
One should reverently pay homage to the man from whom one has learned the Truth, taught by the True Buddha, like a brahmin does to the sacrificial fire.
One is not a brahmin by virtue of matted hair, lineage or caste. When a man possesses both Truth and truthfulness, then he is pure, then he is a brahmin.
What use is your matted hair, you fool? What use is your antelope skin? You are tangled inside, and you are just making the outside pretty.
The man who wears robes made from rags off the dust heap, who is gaunt, with his sinews standing out all over his body, alone meditating in the forest — that is what I call a brahmin.
I do not call him a brahmin who is so by natural birth from his mother. He is just a supercilious person if he still has possessions of his own. He who owns nothing of his own, and is without attachment — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who, having cut off all fetters, does not get himself upset, but is beyond bonds — that liberated man is what I call a brahmin.
He who has cut off both bond and strap, halter as well as bridle, who has removed the barrier, himself a Buddha — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, strong in patience, and that strength his power — that is what I call a brahmin.
Without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body — that is what I call a brahmin.
Like water on a lotus leaf, like a mustard seed on the point of an pin, he who is not stuck to the senses — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed! — that is what I call a brahmin.
The sage of profound wisdom, the expert in the right and wrong road, he who has achieved the supreme purpose — that is what I call a brahmin.
Not intimate with laity or monks, wandering about with no abode, and few needs — that is what I call a brahmin.
Abandoning violence to all living creatures moving or still, he who neither kills or causes killing — that is what I call a brahmin.
Unagitated amongst the agitated, at peace among the violent, without clinging among those who cling — that is what I call a brahmin.
He from whom desire and aversion, conceit and hypocrisy have fallen away, like a mustard seed on the point of a pin — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who utters only gentle, instructive and truthful speech, criticising no-one — that is what I call a brahmin. 408
He who takes nothing in the world that has not been given him, long or short, big or small, attractive or that is what I call a brahmin.
Buddha Image depicting the stage before enlightenment when he tortured his body with physical renunciation, and subsrquently found the "Middle Path"
He who has no desires in this world or the next, without longings, freed! — that is what I call a brahmin. 410
He who has no attachments and has been freed from uncertainty by realisation, who has plunged into the deathless — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has even here and now transcended the fetter of both good and evil, who is sorrowless, faultless and pure — that is what I call a brahmin.
The man who is stainless, pure, clear and free from impurities like the moon, the search for pleasure extinguished — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has transcended the treacherous mire of samsara and ignorance, who has crossed over, reached the other shore, meditating, motionless of mind, free from uncertainty, and who is at peace by not clinging to anything — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who by here and now abandoning sensuality, has gone forth a homeless wanderer, the search for pleasure extinguished — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who by here and now abandoning craving, has gone forth a homeless wanderer, the search for pleasure extinguished — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has abandoned human bonds, and transcended those of heaven, liberated from all bonds — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has abandoned pleasure and displeasure, is cooled off and without further fuel, the hero who has conquered all worlds — that is what I call a brahmin. 418
He who has seen the passing away and rebirth of all beings, free of clinging, blessed, awakened — that is what I call a brahmin.
He whose path devas, spirits and men cannot know, whose inflowing thoughts are ended, a saint — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has nothing of his own, before, after or in between, possessionless and without attachment — that is what I call a brahmin.
Bull-like, noble, a hero, a great sage, and a conqueror, he who is motionless of mind, washed clean and awakened — that is what I call a brahmin.
He who has known his former lives and can see heaven and hell themselves, while he has attained the extinction of rebirth, a seer, master of transcendent knowledge, and master of all masteries — that is what I call a brahmin.
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