Jacob Lewis, with a columbia.edu email address, wrote to me about this one:
“Do not overrate what you have received, or envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
He said he’d seen it silk-screened on a tapestry in Asheville, NC.
It’s a rather odd, and slighly inaccurate, translation of the 365th verse of the Dhammapada. I’m rating this one as “Fakeish” rather than “Fake” because it’s simple a case of bad translation.
Here’s Buddharakhita’s translation:
…One should not despise what one has received, nor envy the gains of others. The monk who envies the
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