With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.