31st January

31.   Cease to do evil, learn to do good,

        Purify the mind.

        This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

        Despising none, harming none,

        Being restrained by the monastic rules,

        Moderation in food, living in solitude,

        And devotion to meditation.

        This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

        Seeing conflict as a danger

        And harmony as peace,

        Abide in unity and kind-heartedness.

        This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

        The meditation on love should be done

        For oneself and others also.

        All should be suffused with love.

        This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Dhp.183; 185; Cp.3,15,13 (Cp 35); Mil.394 (Mil 7.5.5)