Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

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

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.