Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

It is better to travel well then arrive.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.