Name: Thousands Remix
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: Lyrics based on chapter 8 of the Dhammapada.

Thousands Remix

from Dhammapada Songs #2 by Rick Ferriss

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Lyrics based on chapter 8 of the Dhammapada.

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Better than a thousand words
  of gossip or idle or hurtful speech
  is a single word that leads into peace.

A poem of a thousand lines
  that leads into slumber and fantasy
  is not as good as a single line that leads into peace.

A warrior who conquers a thousand foe,
  on every day, of a thousand battles,
  does not win a contest so great as the one in ourselves.

To conquer your self is the toughest fight,
  with a victory greater than all other victories,
  and a prize that no person or demon or god can destroy.

Better than a hundred years
of hatred and greed and delusion
is but a single day of awakening

Better than a hundred years
of suffering and pain and confusion
is but a single day of awakening

And better than a thousand words
  of gossip or idle or hurtful speech
  is a single word that leads into peace.

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from Dhammapada Songs #2, released October 3, 2017
Lyrics, music and performance by Rick Ferriss. The original Dhammapada Songs release (2010) contained vocal and instrumental versions of Thousands. Bill Dudley refashioned the original tracks into this extended rendition.

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Rick Ferriss has been writing and performing since the 70s. Mostly around Tampa Florida.

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