[Angulimala:]

„While walking, contemplative, you say, 'I have stopped.' But when I have stopped you say I haven't. I ask you the meaning of this: How have you stopped? How haven't I?“

[The Buddha:]

„I have stopped, Angulimala, once & for all, having cast off violence toward all living beings. You, though, are unrestrained toward beings. That's how I've stopped and you haven't.“

[Angulimala:]

„At long last a greatly revered great seer

for my sake

has come to the great forest. Having heard your verse in line with the Dhamma, I will go about having abandoned evil.“

So saying, the bandit hurled his sword & weapons

over a cliff
into a chasm,
	a pit.

Then the bandit paid homage to the feet of the One Well-gone, and right there requested the Going-forth. The Awakened One, the compassionate great seer, the teacher of the world, along with its devas, said to him then:

"Come, bhikkhu."

That in itself was bhikkhuhood for him.

• * *

Who once was heedless,(1) but later is not,

brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.

His evil-done deed(2) is replaced with skillfulness:

he brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.

Whatever young monk devotes himself to the Buddha's bidding:

he brightens the world
like the moon set free from a cloud.

May even my enemies

hear talk of the Dhamma.

May even my enemies

devote themselves
to the Buddha's bidding.

May even my enemies

associate with those people
who — peaceful, good —
get others to accept the Dhamma.

May even my enemies

hear the Dhamma time & again
from those who advise	endurance,
		forbearance,
who praise non-opposition,

and may they follow it.

For surely he wouldn't harm me, or anyone else; he would attain the foremost peace, would protect the feeble & firm.

Irrigators guide the water.(3) Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The wise control

	themselves.

Some tame with a blunt stick, with hooks, & with whips But without blunt or bladed weapons I was tamed by the one who is Such.

„Doer of No Harm“ is my name, but I used to be a doer of harm. Today I am true to my name, for I harm no one at all.

A bandit
I used to be,

renowned as Angulimala. Swept along by a great flood, I went to the Buddha as refuge.

Bloody-handed
I used to be,

renowned as Angulimala. See my going for refuge! Uprooted is [craving], the guide to becoming.

Having done the type of kamma that would lead to many bad destinations, touched by the fruit of [that] kamma, unindebted, I eat my food.(4)

They're addicted to heedlessness(5) — dullards, fools — while one who is wise cherishes heedfulness as his highest wealth.

Don't give way to heedlessness(6) or to intimacy

with sensual delight —

for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundant bliss.

This(7) has come well & not gone away, it was not badly thought through for me. From among well-analyzed qualities, I have obtained the best.

This has come well & not gone away, it was not badly thought through for me.

The three knowledges
have been attained;
the Awakened One's bidding,
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Where once I stayed here & there with shuddering mind —

in the wilderness,
at the foot of a tree,
in mountains, caves —

with ease I now lie down, I stand, with ease I live my life. O, the Teacher has shown me sympathy!

Before, I was of brahman stock, on either side high-born. Today I'm the son of the One Well-gone, the Dhamma-king, the Teacher.

Rid of craving, devoid of clinging, sense-doors guarded, well-restrained, having killed the root of evil, I've reached fermentations' end.

The Teacher has been served by me; the Awakened One's bidding,

done;

the guide to becoming, uprooted; the heavy load, laid down.