The Buddha's Way of Virtue: § I: The Twin Truths

6. If some there are who know not by such hatred we are perishing, and some there are who know it, then by their knowledge strife is ended. 7. As the wind throws down a shaky tree, so Mara (Death) o’erwhelms him who is a seeker after vanity, uncontrolled, intemperate, slothful, and effeminate. 8. But whoso keeps his eyes from vanity, controlled and temperate, faithful and strenuous, Mara cannot overthrow, as the wind beating against a rocky crag. 9. Though an impure man don the pure yellow robe (of the Bhikkhu), himself unindued with temperance and truth, he is not worthy of the pure yellow robe. 10. He who has doffed his impurities, calm and clothed upon with temperance and truth, he wears the pure robe worthily. 11. Those who mistake the shadow for the p. 23 substance, and the substance for the shadow, never attain the reality, following wandering fires (lit. followers of a false pursuit). 12. But if a man knows the substance and the shadow as they are, he attains the reality, following the true trail. 13. As the rain pours into the ill-thatched house, so lust pours into the undisciplined mind. 14. As rain cannot enter the well-thatched house, so lust finds no entry into the disciplined mind. 15. Here and hereafter the sinner mourns: yea mourns and is in torment, knowing the vileness of his deeds. 16. Here and hereafter the good man is glad: yea is glad and rejoices, knowing that his deeds are pure.