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Learning the Dhamma

Once we leave the Temple after Sunday puja, we get caught with our day to day busy life: Home, job, school, travel, grocery shopping, TV programs--it seems as if the day should be more than twenty four hours. Frankly, there is no time for us to read the long Dhamma discourses, let alone understanding them! Well, the busy nature of human life is not a thing of the present alone. It was the same even in Buddha's time.

Sabba papassa akaranam,
Kusalassa upasampada,
Sacitta-pariyodapanam,
Etam Buddhanusasanam

[Sabba (All) papassa (evil) a (no) karanam (do)
Kusalassa (Good) upasampada (do, cultivate)
Sacitta (one's mind) pariyodapanam (purify)
Etam (this is) Buddha (Buddha's) anusasanam (advice )]

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