Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.