When gains arrive, don't lose your way,
When they are gone, don't mourn the day.
Let neither praise nor loss control
The quiet center of your soul.
[Verse 2]
Learn what is good, remember well,
Reflect on truths that teachings tell.
Let wisdom move from book to heart,
Then make compassion your own art.
[Pre-Chorus]
Walk with patience, breathe with care,
Let wisdom meet you everywhere.
What you have learned, begin to live,
Receive the world, and learn to give.
[Chorus]
Be steady within, be truthful and clear,
Say only what you know, hold wisdom near.
When the world is shaking, let the mind be still,
Walk the path with courage, compassion, and will.
No gain can bind you, no loss make you fall,
With wisdom and mindfulness, you can meet it all.
[Verse 3]
See forms and colors come and go,
Watch every feeling rise and flow.
Do not become the things you see,
Let mindful knowing set you free.
[Verse 4]
If you have seen, then say you see,
If you have heard, speak honestly.
If you don't know, then simply say,
“I do not know,” and walk the way.
[Bridge]
Eight doors of freedom open wide,
From outer forms to worlds inside.
Through concentration, calm and bright,
The heart moves toward a deeper light.
Eight great causes shake the ground,
Yet wisdom listens to each sound.
When life transforms and moments cease,
Awareness walks the path of peace.
[Final Chorus]
Be steady within, be truthful and clear,
Let wisdom overcome confusion and fear.
When the world is shaking, let the heart remain,
Free from attachment, free from greed and pain.
Learn, practice, speak truth, and compassion begin,
The deepest peace is found steady within.
[Outro]
No gain can own you,
No loss can define you.
Know what you know,
Release what you cling to.
Walk with the Dhamma,
Walk with the light—
Steady within,
Awake through the night.
The Bhūmicāla Chapter: Ten Discourses on Desire, Speech, Meditation, and Liberation
Tipiṭaka Volume 23 presents a sequence of teachings on desire, learning, meditation, mastery of mental objects, truthful speech, community, and the conditions associated with great earthquakes.
The Cāla Chapter, or Bhūmicāla Chapter, is found in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Aṭṭhaka Nipāta, Second Fifty, in Tipiṭaka Volume 23. The Mahācuḷālaṅkaraṇa edition identifies it as the Bhūmicāla Chapter, while the Thai royal edition also uses the designation Cāla Chapter. It consists of ten discourses: the Icchā Sutta, eight Alaṃ Suttas, the Saṃkhitta Sutta, the Gayāsīsa Sutta, the Abhibhāyatana Sutta, the Vimokkha Sutta, the Anariyavohāra Sutta, the Ariyavohāra Sutta, the Parisā Sutta, and the Bhūmicāla Sutta.
The Icchā Sutta: Understanding the Desire for Gain
The Icchā Sutta analyzes eight types of persons according to their desire for gain, their effort to obtain gain, and their mental reaction when gain is obtained or not obtained.
The important issue is not simply whether a person receives material support. Rather, the discourse examines whether gain produces intoxication, heedlessness, sorrow, or deviation from the true teaching.
The teaching therefore emphasizes freedom from attachment to gain. Material benefits may occur, but the practitioner should not allow them to dominate the mind.
The Alaṃ Suttas: Developing Ability for Oneself and Others
The Alaṃ Suttas describe qualities that enable a practitioner to benefit both oneself and others. These include quickly understanding wholesome teachings, remembering what has been heard, examining their meaning, understanding both meaning and principle, practicing accordingly, speaking well, and explaining the teaching to fellow practitioners in a way that encourages them.
The series also distinguishes between people who are capable of benefiting themselves and others, those who can benefit others but not themselves, and those whose abilities remain limited in one direction.
The broader message is that genuine learning involves study, reflection, practice, communication, and service to others.
The Saṃkhitta Sutta: Brief Teaching, Deep Practice
The Saṃkhitta Sutta concerns a monk who asks the Buddha for a concise teaching that he can put into practice while living diligently and devoted to meditation.
The discourse describes the gradual cultivation of concentration and connects meditation with liberation of mind and liberation through wisdom.
Its central message is that hearing a teaching is only the beginning. The teaching must be contemplated and cultivated until it becomes a direct transformation of the mind.
The Gayāsīsa Sutta: Developing Knowledge and Insight
The Gayāsīsa Sutta presents the Buddha's account of the development of higher knowledge and vision at Gayāsīsa.
The discourse emphasizes perseverance, mindfulness, and the progressive refinement of knowledge rather than the pursuit of extraordinary experiences for their own sake. Its culmination is associated with liberating knowledge and the realization that there is no further rebirth.
The Abhibhāyatana Sutta: Mastering Mental Objects
The Abhibhāyatana Sutta describes eight dimensions of mastery involving the perception of forms and colors.
The term suggests a capacity to overcome or master objects of experience rather than becoming dominated by them. The teaching can therefore be understood as emphasizing disciplined attention and mastery of the mind in relation to sensory experience.
The Vimokkha Sutta: The Eight Liberations
The Vimokkha Sutta presents eight forms of liberation, progressing from meditative contemplation of forms to increasingly subtle immaterial attainments and finally the cessation of perception and feeling.
The teaching presents liberation as a progressive loosening of attachment to increasingly subtle objects and states of experience.
The Anariyavohāra Sutta: Speech That Distorts Reality
The Anariyavohāra Sutta describes eight forms of improper expression, including saying that one has seen something that one has not seen, heard something that one has not heard, known something that one has not known, or understood something that one has not understood. The reverse forms—denying what one has actually seen, heard, known, or understood—are also included.
This teaching has a clear contemporary relevance to public communication. It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between what is actually observed, heard, known, and understood.
The Ariyavohāra Sutta: Speaking According to What Is Known
The Ariyavohāra Sutta presents the corresponding eight forms of noble expression: saying that one has not seen what one has not seen, has not heard what one has not heard, has not known what one has not known, and has not understood what one has not understood; and affirming what one has actually seen, heard, known, or understood.
This provides a practical principle for communication: do not claim knowledge that you do not possess, and do not deny what you actually know.
The Parisā Sutta: Understanding Different Assemblies
The Parisā Sutta concerns eight types of assemblies.
The teaching can also be considered in terms of communication and social coexistence. Different groups have different backgrounds, expectations, and modes of interaction. Effective communication therefore requires awareness of the audience as well as responsibility on the part of the speaker.
The Bhūmicāla Sutta: Eight Conditions Associated with Great Earthquakes
The Bhūmicāla Sutta is the final discourse of the chapter and gives the chapter its name in the Mahācuḷālaṅkaraṇa edition.
The Buddha explains eight conditions associated with the appearance of a great earthquake. The discourse includes natural and extraordinary causes as well as major events in Buddhist sacred history, including the Bodhisatta's descent and birth, the Buddha's awakening, the turning of the Dhamma wheel, the relinquishment of the life force, and final Nibbāna.
The discourse also describes the Buddha's relinquishment of the life force at Pāvāla Shrine and the great earthquake that followed.
A Unified Message of the Chapter
Taken together, the ten discourses form a progression:
Recognize desire → develop learning → practice meditation → master mental objects → speak truthfully → understand communities → understand conditions and causation.
The Bhūmicāla Chapter therefore offers more than a teaching about earthquakes. It presents a broad framework for inner stability: freedom from attachment, disciplined learning, meditation, truthful communication, social awareness, and understanding conditions.
In the contemporary information age, the teachings on noble and ignoble modes of speech are particularly relevant to responsible communication. The Alaṃ Suttas emphasize that knowledge should become practice and benefit both oneself and others, while the Icchā Sutta encourages practitioners not to become intoxicated by material gain.
The overall message can be summarized as follows:
Lasting stability begins with the training of the mind, speech, wisdom, and awareness of causes and conditions.
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