For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.