All fear punishment, all fear death; Considering others like oneself, one should neither kill nor cause to kill.

All fear punishment, life is dear to all; Considering others like oneself, one should neither kill nor cause to kill.

Beings wishing for happiness, who harm others with punishment; While seeking happiness for themselves, after death, they do not find happiness.

Beings wishing for happiness, who do not harm others with punishment; While seeking happiness for themselves, after death, they find happiness.

Do not speak harshly to anyone, for if spoken to, they might respond to you; Indeed, angry words bring suffering, and retaliation may affect you.

If you remain non-agitated, like a broken gong; You will have attained Nibbāna, and no trace of stubbornness will remain in you.

Just as the cowherd, drives the cows to the pasture with a stick; So too do old age and death, drive the life-span of living beings.

While doing harmful deeds, the immature person does not understand; Through their own deeds, the undiscerning one, is tormented, as if burned by fire.

Whoever, with punishment harms those that are peaceful, or harms those who are blameless; Will very quickly experience, one of these ten situations.

They may experience sharp pain, or the fracturing of the body; Or else grave illness, or they may fall into mental confusion.

Or they may face trouble from the authorities, or a harsh accusation; Or the loss of their relatives, or the perishing of their possessions.

Or else, their houses, may be burned down by fire; Or on the disintegration of the body [through death], the one who has not cultivated wisdom goes to a state of misfortune.

Neither going naked, nor matted hair, nor covering oneself with mud, nor fasting, nor sleeping on bare ground; nor dust and dirt, nor squatting ascetic practices, purify a mortal who has not overcome doubt.

Even if adorned, if one walks with tranquility, At peace, tamed, restrained, and practicing the spiritual life; Having laid down violence towards all beings, that person is a brahmin, an ascetic, a bhikkhu.

A person restrained by a sense of right and wrong, if such a one is found in the world; Who shies away from sleeping too much, is like a noble horse that is restrained by the whip.

Just as a noble horse is restrained by the whip, be with continuous effort and feeling a sense of urgency; By faith, by virtue and with energy, with collectedness and discernment of mental qualities; Fully endowed with wisdom and ethical conduct and self-aware, you will abandon this considerable suffering.

Irrigators guide water, fletchers shape the shaft [of an arrow]; Carpenters shape wood, one of good conduct tames themselves.