Dhammapada

Objective: submit your individual report answering the following:
• Make an analysis of ONE chapter of the Buddhist book "Dhammapada"

Procedure: Look for information in the digital libraryand Blackboard, then put the information and get a conclusion of what I read.

Results: Chapter 1, The Pairs
1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is theirchief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follow him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is theirchief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow
3. "He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, and he robbed me."Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
4. "He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, and he robbed me." Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
5. Hatred isnever appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
6. There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realizethis settle their quarrels.
7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating,indolent, and dissipated.
8. Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses,moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort.
9. Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk's yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.10. But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe.
11. Those who mistake the unessential to be...