The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses attributed to the Buddha, arranged in twenty-six chapters on themes such as the mind, the fool and the wise person, anger, the thirst of craving, old age, and the path. Each short verse gives a compact teaching on conduct and mental discipline, often with an image like a fletcher straightening an arrow or a rock unmoved by wind. It is one of the best-known texts of the Pali canon and sets out the basic Buddhist view that suffering comes from craving and that the mind can be trained to end it.
People new to Buddhism will find it a direct entry point, and practitioners often return to it as a daily reading. You can open it at random, take one verse, and think about it for a day, which is how many readers use it.
Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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