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Synopsis All that we are is the result of our own thought. All that we are is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our own thoughts. Pain follows evil thoughts and actins, just as the wheel follows the foot of the bullock that draws the cart. Happiness follows pure thoughts and actions, just as the shadow follows a man wherever he goes. There is an abode, O brethren! where there is no world of infinity-of-space, nor world of infinity-of-intelligence, nor world of cognition or non-cognition, nor this world nor the world yonder, neither sun nor moon. That abode, O brethren! Has neither coming nor going, neither birth nor death. Without origin and without annihilation and beyond thought is that. The destruction of all sorrow is that. That abode, O brethren! Is unborn, uncreated, unmanifested and unconditioned. Unless it were that, there could not be cognised in this world, birth, creation, manifestation and conditioning. That abode is Nirvana. WHAT IS DHAMMA? Speaking of the test of Dhamma the Blessed One said: These are not Dhamma. The teachings and doctrines that conduce to passion, not to dispassion; to bondage, not to detachment; to greed, not to absention; to discontent, not to content-of such teachings and doctrines you may say firmly: These are not Dhamma. This is not the message of the Master. Of whatever teachings and doctrines you can assure yourself that they are the opposite of these things, you may say firmly: These are Dhamma. This is the message of the Master.