Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened.
A man asked Gautama Buddha,
"I want happiness"
Buddha said,
First remove " I ", that's Ego,
Then remove " want ", that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness".
To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible -- we must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.
In this world. Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law ancient and inexhaustible. You to shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,
giving up victory and defeat.
If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it.
If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it.
If it is not truthful yet helpful, don't say it.
If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.
The trouble is you think you time.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
