Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.