EVERYDAY LIFE · DHAMMAPADA 304

What Your Actions Carry

Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night.

Dhammapada 304 · Chapter 21, Miscellaneous · trans. F. Max Müller · Read the full text at Project Gutenberg

Reflection

The verse begins, “Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains.” In its chapter, this image points toward finding the teaching in mixed, everyday circumstances. Read goodness here as a trainable direction—choices that reduce harm and leave less residue of regret. Because this is a historic English translation, test the teaching in experience rather than treating its wording as a demand for belief.

Practice prompt

Practice without announcing it in one moment today.