badly-practised

Updated: May 27, 2025

As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell. If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely. An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

- Sacred Books of the East