The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.