If your heart has blossomed
and given birth to a wish
for what can't be expressed,
your mind not enmeshed
in sensual passions:
you're said to be
in the up-flowing stream.
-Dhammapada, 16, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Your Heart Has Blossomed
If your heart has blossomed
and given birth to a wish
for what can't be expressed,
your mind not enmeshed
in sensual passions:
you're said to be
in the up-flowing stream.
-Dhammapada, 16, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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The original quote in Verse 218 is phrased differently from above:
If you've given birth to a wish
for what can't be expressed,
are suffused with heart,
your mind not enmeshed
in sensual passions:
you're said to be
in the up-flowing stream.
"suffused with heart" means "clear in mind".
"your mind not enmeshed in sensual passions" means "your heart-mind is not bound in sensual pleasures".
Acharya Buddharakkhita's translation helps further edify the original quote:
One who is intent upon the Ineffable (Nibbana), dwells with mind inspired (by supramundane wisdom), and is no more bound by sense pleasures — such a man is called "One Bound Upstream.
Both verses refer to bodhisattvas, both monks and laypeople alike.
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