ចម្ការថ្នាំជក់នៅឃុំស្វាយឃ្លាំង ស្រុកក្រូចឆ្មារ ខេត្តត្បូងឃ្មុំ កាលពីថ្ងៃទី២៣ ខែមេសា ឆ្នាំ២០១៦។ RFA/Cheu Sideth
That is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher, said further:
If you hold yourself dear
then don’t fetter yourself
with evil,
for happiness isn’t easily gained
by one who commits
a wrong-doing.
When seized by the End-maker
as you abandon the human state,
what’s truly your own?
What do you take along when you go?
What follows behind you
like a shadow
that never leaves?
Both the merit & evil
that you as a mortal
perform here:
that’s what’s truly your own,
what you take along when you go;
that’s what follows behind you
like a shadow
that never leaves.
So do what is admirable,
as an accumulation
for the future life.
Deeds of merit are the support for beings
when they arise
in the other world.
“Piya Sutta: Dear” (SN 3.4), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Source: Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013