Birth, family name and holy-looking clothes don’t make anyone holy. Someone with matted hair and an antelope-skin robe can be a tangle of wanting inside. A person is holy by being truthful and good, and in no other way.
From Dhammapada by Anonymous
Birth, family name and holy-looking clothes don’t make anyone holy. Someone with matted hair and an antelope-skin robe can be a tangle of wanting inside. A person is holy by being truthful and good, and in no other way.
From Dhammapada by Anonymous
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