Saturday, August 26, 2006

HE KNOWS HE KNOWS HE KNOWS

He knows his former lives.
He sees heavens and states of woe,
has attained the ending of birth,
is a sage who has mastered full-knowing,
his mastery totally mastered:
he's what I call
a brahmin.

-Dhammapada 423, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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