This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 129, ' The Living Message of the Dhammapada' found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. V as well as at BPS as a free eBook download. Excerpt from The Living Message of the Dhammapada by Bhikkhu Bodhi The Dhammapada is a work familiar to every devout Buddhist and to every serious student of Buddhism. This small collection of 423 verses on the Buddha's doctrine is so rich in insights that it might be considered the perfect compendium of the Dhamma in its practical dimensions. To draw out the living message of any great spiritual classic, it is not enough for us merely to investigate it in terms of questions that might be posed by scientific scholarship. We have to take a step beyond scholarly examination and seek to make an application of those teachings to ourselves in our present condition.