20.
The Chapter on the Path
Dispassion is foremost of phenomena, and of two-footed beings, the one with vision.
You should proceed along this, this is the deception of Māra.
The path has been declared to you by me, having understood the extraction of the dart.
Those practising will be freed, meditators, from Māra's bondage.
Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.
Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.
Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.
With mind of sunken thought, lazy, the idle one does not find the path by wisdom.
One should purify these three courses of action, one should attain the path proclaimed by the seers.
Having known this twofold path, for existence and non-existence;
One should so establish oneself, that wisdom may increase.
Having cut down both the forest and the undergrowth, be free from craving, monks.
So long is his mind bound, like a milk-sucking calf to its mother.
Develop only the path of peace, Nibbāna taught by the Fortunate One.
Thus the fool thinks, not understanding the obstacle.
Death takes him away, as a great flood a sleeping village.
For one overcome by the Ender, there is no protection among kin.
Should quickly purify the path leading to Nibbāna.
The Chapter on the Path is concluded as twentieth.