Chapter 5. The Fool

60. Long is the night for a wakeful; long is a yojana for a tired. Long is the Samsara for the fools who do not know the true Dharma.

61. If a wanderer should no find a companion better or simillar to oneself, then he should resolutely wander alone. There is no companionship with a fool.

62. The fool worries: "I have sons, I have wealth." He does not even own himself. Whence sons and wealth?

63. A fool who knows about his foolishness, just by that he is like a wise man. And a fool, who is proud of his cleverness, he is indeed called a fool.

64. A fool can attend on a wise man even for whole his life, he willnot understand the Dharma, like a spoon does not know the taste of the soup.

65. An intelligent person can attend on a wise man even for a second, he will quickly understand the Dharma, like a tongue knows the taste of the soup.

66. The stupid fools behave as if they themselves were their enemies, doing bad deeds, which have bitter fruit.

67. That deed is not well done, which one regrets when it is accomplished, whose cosequences one faces with a tearful face and crying.

68. That deed is well done, which one does not regret when it is accomplished, whose consequences one faces delighted and happy.

69. The fool thinks it is as honey, as long as the evil is not ripe. When the evil is ripe, then he undergoes suffering.

70. Month by month can a fool eat his food with a blade of the kusa grass, he is not worth a sixteenth part of those, who have realized the Dharma.

71. An evil deed when done, doesn't instantly bear fruits; just like milk does not coagulate at once. Burning,it follows the fool like fire covered with ashes.

72. A fool gains knowledge altogether for his harm.It kills his fortune; it destroys his head.

73. He might want undue respect, deference from monks, supremace over dwellings and devotion from othe families.

74. "Let both householders and monks think tha it was done by me, let them be under my will, in whatever duties." Such are fool's thoughts. His desire and pride grows.

75. Something else are worldly gains, something else is the path leading to the Nirvana. Thus let a monk, the Buddha's student, having fully understood this, not rejoice at worship, but let him devote himself to solitude.