Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.