Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.