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Dhammapada 160
Dhammapada
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From the chapter on self. The verse sits in obvious tension with the doctrine of anatta, no permanent self; the standard resolution is that atta here is the conventional reflexive pronoun, not a metaphysical claim.
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TextSelf is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find. 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationThe Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 10) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Reads against the doctrine of no-self unless atta is taken conventionally.
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