Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.