After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.