As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.