For a person of unsteady mind,
Not knowing true Dhamma,
Serenity
Set adrift:
Discernment doesn't grow full.
For a person of unsoddened mind,
Unassaulted awareness,
Abandoning merit & evil,
Wakeful,
There is no danger
No fear.
-Dhammapada, 3, translation by Thanissaro Bhikku.
Commentary: this quote is from verses 38 and 39 in Chapter 3 of the Dhammapada.
Chapter 3 is entitled The Mind, and gives the disciple instructions about the mind.
The footnote for verse 39 reveals that a soddened mind is soaked by the rain of passion.
For, just as our clothes are soaked in the rain, so too is the mind by passion.
Of course, a light rainfall will barely soak me; but a rainstorm would drench me.
Likewise, a storm of passion would harm me greatly, disturbing my mind, leaving me distracted, lost, confused, motivated by fear and prone to anger.
Thus, passion itself is harmless in moderation. Too much of it or too little of it will lead to
psychic illness.
As well, "true Dharma" is subtly realized as Buddha Nature where the realm of truth, being that of phenomenon and noumenon, is also known as Dharmakaya.
When the disciple always views Self Nature as Buddha Nature, the True Mind is bathed in the realization of the true Dharma path, the Middle Way.
Reference:
Footnote to Dhammapada Verse 39: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/khuddaka/dhp/tb0/index.html#n39
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