Friends:


Uniqueness:

Friendship is the GREATEST.
Friendship motivates the entire Noble life.
Friendship is synergistic symbiosis.



Some verses from The Sutta Pitaka about Friendship:


Follow only the Good Ones,
Associate only with the Clever Ones,
To learn the Truth from these Nobles
gives an advantage like nothing else.

To follow the fools & thereby
copy & choose the bad ways,
to know no Good Friends,
is causing only Misery.

As if one strings rotten fish
on a straw of grass,
this grass will soon smell putrid too.
Exactly so with one who follows fools.

As if one wraps up perfume
in a common leaf this leaf
will soon smell sweet too.
Exactly so with one who follows the Wise.


--ooOoo--



Adapted from Gemstones of Good Dhamma
Wheel 342/344 Ven. S. Dhammika,
BPS Buddhist Publication Society,
Kandy, Sri Lanka.


Not Trivial !


Quite cordial regards,


Ven. Samanera Samahita
Cypress Hermitage, Gangamulla
Bambarella, Thawalantenna 20838.
Central Province. SRI LANKA.
Email: monomuni@...
WWW: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Buddha-Direct

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A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
The fickle, unsteady mind, so hard to guard, so hard to control, the wise
man straightens, as the fletcher straightens the arrow.
Random Dhammapada Verse 33