The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates