Toward the end of my copy of the Dhammapada there is a short chapter titled 'Miscellaneous'.
The opening sentence states that a wise man leaves a small pleasure for a greater pleasure.
What?? I'm eating ice-cream and I see pecan pie a la mode so I drop my ice-cream and go for the pecan pie?
Of course not. Any Buddhist would know that the pleasure referred to is spiritual or intellectual, but an uninformed reader wouldn't know this.
Once again I suspect the translation.
It is too late for me to learn Pali and Sanscrit.
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